Wheaton, Maryland, Washington DC, and Beyond
How is Wheaton terrific? Let me count the ways, stopping at three for now:
It’s poised for a boom. That’s according to city planners and via the local Gazette, so it must be true.
Wheaton library hosts Year of the Tiger celebrations this Saturday, March 6 (again with the Gazette-linking).
It is home to a branch of DC [...]
I’m in Interactions, the indoor playspace, in Kensington. Or at least I was on the 23rd; I’m editing this the following day. Anyway, there are these helpful labels on the toys, such as these Diatonic Boomwhackers.
Great Kids Village in Silver Spring takes a different, but also helpful and probably more lucrative, approach. Parents can buy [...]
Here’s another map of the USA, to go with the one I posted earlier today. It adorns a t-shirt available from Snoburbia. That’s not a reference to our recent weather, but is the result of: snob + suburbia.
I became aware of Snoburbia via a post on its blog, which I in turn found via JUtP. [...]
Washington DC as a big, red heart, pumping life-blood through the arteries of the nation’s body? The quote/link is from/to Strange Maps, a fine blog (and now a book). The map is from PublicOptionPlease, where it won a competition. Congratulations to artist Amy Martin.
It makes me wonder which other locations might correspond to other parts [...]
Red was doubly appropriate for yesterday, since it was both Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year. It still seemed appropriate this morning, as there was a trip to Target (big red T) to spend some of the red envelope money.
We have a white afternoon, though. The snow has started to fall yet again. It seems [...]
Year of the Tiger, that is. This rather lovely poster is by Lili Chin.
Our rather tasty lunch today was from Paul Kee. It seemed that everyone in the county was picking up a large order when I was there – and that was before noon.
You know it’s bad when “snow forces snow plows, utility repair crews off the road.” But, as the Washington Post reports, that’s exactly what’s happened in DC and in MoCo.
Speaking of our own county, sweet home, Montgomery schools are closed for the whole week. That means that schools will have been closed since just after [...]
It’s getting harder to deny that we brought the Massachusetts weather down to Maryland. But the snowstorm that finished last night is bigger than I encountered in all the years I lived in Massachusetts. And Silver Spring didn’t even get the very worst of it.
Whenever it has snowed this winter – and it’s snowed a [...]
Our first December in Maryland brought more than a whole DC-area winter’s worth of snow. January was more typical in terms of weather.
Another big storm has just started. Every time it snows, Maddie asks: Is this a blizzard? It looks as though she’ll get her blizzard tonight, with a lot more snow to follow tomorrow.
Today I actually got some news from a newspaper: the Wheaton Gazette, which gets delivered every week. As an unsolicited paper object (UPO?) it’s less unwelcome than the telephone directories that Verizon inflict upon us.
The news is that Wheaton Library will stay at its current location. I regard that as good news, since I see [...]