The Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale features new, rare and hard-to-find plants, and this year’s sale also includes more than 600 books on horticulture, garden design and designers, landscape architecture and garden travel from the library of longtime FONA board member and garden designer Sally Boasberg, who passed […]
JDLand reported that the Marine’s stalled search for new barracks is beginning again and has been narrowed to three potential locations: “the site of the Bachelor Enlisted Quarters/MBW Annex at 7th and Virginia, the former Exxon site at 11th and M on Square 976, and “Squares 929/930,” the two blocks bounded by 8th, Virginia, 9th, […]
Goodbye cherry blossoms. Goodbye dogwoods. Hello azellas, peonies and bleeding hearts. Love to capture spring on the hill? Add your posts to THIH’s flicker group.
My first bites of a baked good from The Pretzel Bakery proved quite elusive. Opening weekend they ran out of pretzels. Three times. Perhaps that’s a testament both to the spirit of the neighborhood in welcoming a new business and the simple goodness of a well-baked pretzel. I was able to score a three-pack on […]
In researching my recent epic on the Keeper of the Crypt, I came across another example of a topic that I thought I had exhausted in my book: Explosions in the Capitol. I had documented occurrences in 1876, 1898, 1915, 1971, and 1983. It turns out that there was an even earlier one. Like all […]