A very DC story about a DC cat in today’s Washington Post:
She dozed on sunlit stoops, scaled fences and slept in a boxy shelter on a neighbor’s lawn. She was named Kitty Snows, after her new home on Snows Court in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of D.C., where she belonged to everyone and no one.
And then, she vanished.
What has unfolded this year around Snows Court in is an old-fashioned neighborhood melodrama — “Kittygate,” if you must — complete with wounded feelings, rampant gossip, sidewalk spies and lawsuit threats.
For what it’s worth, I side with the new owners.
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Our bubble baby at the NIH Clinical Center playground, back when I was working there. NIH was a bubble in its on way too, of course.
You can recognize avarice in any community, and the carps at the US National Arboretum are no different. It is no accident that the one fish with its mouth wide open and ready to eat is also the largest one in the pond.
I don’t often leave online reviews and when I do it’s usually to commend. Not this time.
I might have cooled off by the time I got back home, but then I noticed that the worst auto repair shop in DC has left me a surprise.
Exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, on loan from Angola: a Mosasaurus skull, leg and spine.
I don’t think we knew about these when I was a kid, but my own children knew all about it. From YouTube, where else.
The same pond as yesterday, with more light but alas without the heron.
Zoom in to the center of this dreamy Brookside Gardens landscape and you will see… another blue heron, holding on to an indecently large goldfish.
Behold, the Maryland state flag — one of the best in the Union — and state flower on top of the Maryland state desert, the Smith Island (birthday) cake. Best of all, this was a birthday we celebrated while on Smith Island.
A small drop on a large leaf, as seen at the family favorite, Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens.
What war on Christmas? The magic was alive and well in DC last year.