Of all the photos I took this summer, this “leaning shack of Wheaton” best captures our first summer in Wheaton/Silver Spring/Montgomery County/Maryland/DC area. It’s outdoors. It’s local, from Wheaton’s wonderful Brookside Gardens. It shows storm damage. We had three storm-induced power cuts this summer: 54 hours, 24 hours, 4 hours. I regard summer as over, [...]
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Strawberry Fields Today
Highland Elementary’s kindergarten classes went on a (Strawberry) field trip to Homestead Farm today. I volunteered to chaperone, and so ended up fruit-picking, hayriding, and doing other fun stuff. Although it’s ~45 minutes from Wheaton, I might well take the whole family, including 3yo, to Homestead. The strawberries were great. The supporting cast of staff, [...]
MoCo Gets Its Groupon
Groupon is a combination of coupon and group. Every day there’s “something cool to do at an unbeatable price” (i.e. a coupon), but, in order for you to get the offer, enough people must sign up for it (that’s the group part). It’s a localized service, so there one “something cool” for each location. I’ve [...]
Snow More
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 [...]
Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail and…
Last night saw a fall of light snow: enough snow that I can’t quite belittle it as a light snowfall, but light enough and little enough snow that I don’t think that schools should be closed. But closed they are here in Montgomery County. That said, I continue to like the county. Max and I [...]
Where’s Wheaton?
Wheaton, the place I now live, is in Maryland. It is: Flagged on the map I made for this post. Part of Silver Spring. Wikipedia describes Silver Spring as an unincorporated area, and Wheaton as one of its neighborhoods. In Montgomery County (MoCo), and hence part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Wheaton is not: Inside [...]