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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

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It’s cold, wet and rainy and if you had Kansas in your bracket, you are very happy today. What else is going on? First off, if you haven’t read about a neighborhood grassroots effort to buy the building where Mott’s Market operated for decades, click here. Last week’s most shocking and disturbing news came out […]

Saving Mott’s Market, one neighbor at a time

Walter Street is perhaps one of the more picturesque streets in DC, where every neighbor says hello. It’s exactly the right kind of environment to launch a grassroots effort to save a little market located at the western end of this street. As you may have read, Mott’s Market closed its doors exactly a month […]

The To Do List: Week of March 31, 2022

What a crazy month March was! We celebrated the cherry blossoms and cavorted in temperatures that ranged from a high daytime temp of 80 degrees on March 7 (remember that?) to a very low 42 degrees this past Monday. And somehow in all the sun/snow chaos, we still found some very fun things to do. […]

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Good afternoon and hope you hadn’t put your coat away! What a ride it’s been for this year’s cherry blossoms, huh? Narrowly averted disaster with a mid-March snow, and were able to stay full and beautiful until freak cold temperatures ended the joyride. Don’t worry– double cherries and dogwoods aren’t too far behind. What else […]

The To Do List: Week of March 24, 2022

Happy Aries Season! The pollen is ready to attack but so are the thunderstorms and everywhere, bold Aries babies are CELEBRATING. If it’s your birthday, have a happy one! Don’t forget to celebrate Metro’s 46th on March 27 by lovingly telling them 20-minute headways are the worst. What is there to do this weekend? Brief […]

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