Sophie Martinson, 16, a Running Start student at Clark College, ducks her head as she passes under branches of a newly bloomed flowering plum tree next to the tennis courts at Clark College on Thursday as the beginning of the area’s springtime blossoming begins. The top of Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater is framed by newly bloomed cherry trees next to the Vancouver Telephone Exchange building at 11th and Washington Streets in Vancouver on Thursday.
