SDSingleGirl‘s comment on my first photo post below reminded me that I’d actually been intending to say a bit more about tulips and my love for them. (Thought I’d post again in the spirit of transparency/not editing after the fact, and okay, so I could have an excuse to perfect my photoblogging and share more beautiful tulips with all of you. Read the rest of this entry »
0417081008, originally uploaded by washwords.
DC in the springtime is breathtakingly beautiful. My
Flickr set features some of my favorite tulips from in and around my immediate neighborhood. I took all of these between 16th and 19th NW, from about P to S streets. There are about a zillion more.
And, shh, my own illicitly planted tulips (a modern-day robin hood am I!) are hidden in this bunch. I’ll let you guess which ones.
Cheers and happy spring.
In trying to find information about my historic (and possibly haunted) Washington, DC home for a personal essay I’m FINALLY trying to shop, I found an abundance of riches in some of the least likely places.
Remember those old school websites? Geocities! Everyone used to have those “animated” angels on such sites or kittycats, and the pages would run floor to ceiling in audacious blues and yellows and lavenders. Clip art galore! the more, the better. and links, links, links – bouncing things, colorful things, windows, “jokes,” funny sound effects. oy vey.
Still, and maybe (definitely) it’s just bitterness at STILL not being listed on DCblogs’ “blogs noted,” DCist or (Washington Post) Express’s recent DC-blogosphere summary (am I invisible? do they not SEE me? I’m funny, I’m witty! Look at me!), I had to admit, there was something about these relics that called to me. Especially when dealing with memory, so today I offer you some blasts from the past, DC style. Read the rest of this entry »
