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Maria Helena Carey

María Helena Carey has always liked to write, tell stories and take pictures but it wasn’t until she moved to the Nation’s Capital that she began exploring all three in a serious manner. She loves poking around Capitol Hill and photographing some of her favorite things: food, her kids, quirky little dogs and cats, and Capitol Hill façades. She is also a portrait photographer and you can see her work at http://mariahelenacarey.com You can contact her at Maria@thehillishome.com

Anything But Boring: Lady Bird Emerges!

I’m not entirely sure what makes an enormous machine so exciting and compelling, but I can’t seem to get enough of DC Water’s tunnel boring machines with their delightful names and sassy attitudes. After two years of mining, excavating, and digging a four-mile tunnel to help improve the water quality in the Anacostia River, Lady […]

It’s #UberIceCream Day!

Today in News You Can Use, Diet Be Damned: It’s #UberIceCream day! That’s right: today, July 24, starting at 11 am and running until 5 pm, you can request ice cream via Uber, and it will arrive in all its creamy deliciousness. You just set your location and request ICE CREAM. If you are a Capital […]

Wylie Street Community Garden, Closer to Staying for Good

The Wylie Street Community Garden has been a little haven of peace and greenery right above H Street NE since 2002. Nestled between the eponymous Wylie Street, H Street NE to the south and 13th Street NE to the east, the garden has 17 plot keepers and provides fresh produce for a couple of H Street restaurants. […]

Sad News: AtlasVet Loses One of their Own

We want to extend our deepest condolences to the AtlasVet family: one of their veterinarians, Dr. Keith de la Cruz, passed away earlier this week. He was a resident of Northern Virginia and the secretary-treasurer of the Northern Virginia Veterinary Medical Association. He was also a beloved vet at the H Street practice for the […]

Romeo and Juliet: Opening Thursday

On Thursday evening, new Capitol Hill restaurant Romeo and Juliet will open to the public. Residents may have noticed the soft lunch, happy hour, and dinner opens that have taken place over the past month and a half. (The earliest one of these took place back in mid-May of this year.) The property, now owned […]