Category Ordinary Life
Memorial Day Weekend – Sunday Picnic
Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, and nothing says “summer” better than a picnic with friends. Since actual picnics outside are complicated by potentially unpredictable contributions from Nature (bugs, dirt, humidity), I invited a group of friends from church to join me for a picnic in my apartment (where Nature is neatly cultivated […]
Container Gardens, Year 2: Pink and Green, with Fish
You may recall that the upshot of last year’s apartment flood was my moving into a new apartment with a balcony, which I promptly filled with an array of potted plants. Having thus broken my many-year hiatus from gardening, I intended to expand my gardens this year in some ambitious ways; namely, I wanted more color, flowering vines, and . . . drum […]
Today’s Ride
I learned my lesson about good-weather weekend bike rides a couple of weeks ago: If I wanted to be able to ride without having to weave through half the population of Washington DC in various stages of physical exertion, I need to hit the road early. So this morning, at what felt like the crack of dawn, […]
Building Dancers
I hadn’t expected to walk out of work today and see people dancing on the facade of the clock tower across the street. And yet there they were. Totally bizarre and cool. I love public performance art. (You’ll see the dancers better if you maximize the video.)
Discovery Fly-over
The retired space shuttle Discovery is being transported today from the NASA space center in Florida to the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum out near the Washington Dulles Airport, where it will replace the Enterprise, which is currently on display but never actually went into space. (You may remember it from last fall, when I wrote about my visit […]
De retour
It’s kind of hard to get back into the swing of things after a long weekend. Unlike a two-week trek through a foreign continent, which tends to get one ready to come back to regular life, a long weekend usually just whets my appetite for more vacation. Let’s just say that my body was at […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 