It’s cherry blossom time in the West End. This year the first blossoms came very quickly on Comox and Barclay Streets, with tiny star-like flowers that thickened to something like a veil or net of blossom, but never quite came together in a solid mass of colour. These are now falling, and their remaining flowers are smothered in red-brown leaves.  We are now into the second wave, the Akebono and other