The sunshine came a day too late as a soggy Saturday gave way to a cloudless Sunday on the final weekend of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

But “even the rain couldn?t hamper the spirit of the festival yesterday. Crowds were coming off in droves from the Metro in the morning,” said Diana Mayhew, executive director of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. “But it obviously wasn?t the crowds that would come without the rains.”