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Equinox!
Around 10:30 pm it will officially be fall. I did a little gardening Saturday morning, harvesting beans and okra and peppers, a few tomatoes and the prodigious kale. Nonetheless, the garden is looking a bit end of season—and of course, … Continue reading
Enjoy and Prepare
December has come on nicely temperate. Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped Arlington County from thinking about the potential for nasty weather. It has launched the Snow & Ice Central page as a clearinghouse for information in the event of winter storms. I hope … Continue reading
And They Weren’t Even Texting…
Not long ago, I was driving in the right lane on Nebraska Avenue between Ward Circle and New Mexico Avenue during the afternoon rush hour, when a white SUV stopped in front of me. I expected the driver was dropping … Continue reading
Metro Rail As A Habitat: A Preliminary Study
The animal behaviorist Konrad Lorenz said that animals did not so much have human traits as that humans displayed traits common to many animals. This comes out for me when I’m on Washington’s Metro trains, especially in rush hour. If … Continue reading
Don’t Crash the Traffic Circle
Arlington has spent quite a lot of money on traffic calming in many of its neighborhoods. Traffic calming is meant to slow traffic to the stated speed limit or make cutting through a neighborhood as time consuming as taking the … Continue reading
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