Benched

Benches for resting and enjoying a view of the Potomac on the
George Washington Memorial Parkway--a popular running, walking, and biking path.

Yesterday, my dad come over from the States to help me with my landscaping project. It's a damn good thing he did, too. Otherwise, I'd be nowhere near where we are this morning. We worked our tails off! So much so that this picture of these benches on the George Washington Memorial Parkway look quite comfortable. This popular running, walking, and biking path lies parallel to the Parkway and runs from just above Washington all the way to Mt. Vernon--14 miles from the capital city to the plantation of America's most beloved leader and first president, George Washington.

But, no rest for the wicked, as they say. It's 6:00 AM as I post this. Dad is on his way over again. We're going to work together until around 8:30 and then I have to bug out for a few hours. I have tickets to President Lincoln's summer cottage on the grounds of the Old Soldier's Home over near Rock Creek Cemetery. After that, it's off to the States and Tyson's Corner in Virginia where I'm attending a pen show at the Sheraton. Then it's back home to pick up where I'll be leaving off and helping Dad some more.

I'll be bringing you pictures from the cottage, the pen show, my landscaping project, and the Montgomery County Fair, as well as a new venture I'm undertaking in portrait photography, all next week!

Whew! What are you doing this weekend?

Photo copyright: D.C. Confidential

Singin' the Greens... And Blues...

Porch chairs in the old style

Hm. I wonder if the lime imparts a buttery quality?*

Yesterday evening, I went back to the same neighborhood I was walking in on Sunday before I got soaked in a deluge. Sunday's walk covered part of 13th Street between Colorado Avenue and Emerson Street over to 16th Street. Yesterday, I walked 13th Street between Arkansas Avenue and Kennedy Street over to Georgia Avenue. I'm determining I live in a pretty non-descript area with very little of interest to photograph. At least, to me anyway, because I see these surroundings all day. As a result, I think tomorrow I'm going to drive over to Georgetown and walk over there. And, I've got to get out and about again and taking pictures of stuff like museums and people and the like.

Green pods in the late afternoon sun

In the meantime, though, here are the results of yesterday's constitutional, as my cousins across the pond would say. When I got home and download my photos, I noticed a running theme in colors. I grouped these four together because they all had some kind of green something in them. Two them also threw in some blue and I just thought they all looked kinda cool together.

Sleeping cat on green porch

To see some more of the photos I took on yesterday's walk, visit Standing Room Only.

* Inside family joke. I'm a culinary snob and I once commented on the buttery qualities of lime to my family. Now they tease me about it. All.the.time.

Photo copyright: D.C. Confidential, 07/08

Study in Green

Landscape lighting :
Washington DC Mormon Temple : Kensington, Maryland

Just a few more random photos of no particular significance, except these are all a variation on a theme of green.

L: New growth on a maple tree.
R: Clover on the forest floor.

L: Backlit trees on the grounds of the Mormon Temple.
R: 15-second timed exposure of the Washington DC Mormon Temple.

Photo copyright: D.C. Confidential, 6/08