Cherry blossom buds in High Park! Good news. I'm glad that society, or at least some parts of it, are still thrilled by that statement, even when perhaps they haven't actually seen cherry blossoms in years, for failure to look when buds become blooms, due to the mandatory distractions of modern life. After I'm gone I'm sure that society will continue to morph along its capitalistic trajectory of quality through quantification so that the accepted response to your intelligence about the emergence of cherry blossom buds will be to ask ... but how many buds? The abstraction of 'buds' will become meaningless unless given a value that can be measured on a scale and fed into an online market. Anyone who might feel differently about cherry blossoms will be designated an abstractionist and I can only imagine the penalty for that transgression.
