You Are A: Duckling!
The cutest of the cute, these baby ducks are often spotted in the spring following closely behind their mother. As a duckling you will grow up quickly, becoming one of the adult ducks seen commonly in ponds and streams. Playful and timid, charming and vulnerable, ducklings are nature’s very definition [...]

I couldn’t find anyone to tell this little vignette to yesterday, so I’m just going to post it here.
Josh woke me up after the Redskins win against Dallas on Monday night. He was bubbling over with excitement and had to talk to somebody. His dad wasn’t picking up the phone. He was so animated and [...]

Tomorrow is my manager’s last day. I’m freaking out a little. In preparation for his absence, the expectations on me have ratcheted up significantly. He’s leaving a lot of loose ends and somebody has to pick up the slack – ready or not.
He’s a GIS Programmer and I’m not. They’re going to hire a [...]

Below is a wonderful poem Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her ‘beauty tips.’ It was read at her funeral years later.
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her [...]

This pretty much sums up how I feel about the hurricane Katrina fiasco in New Orleans. At first, I was merely amused that the city turned into a bathtub just like my former groundwater hydrologist boss predicted it someday would. Then, I was disappointed that it was destroyed because I was planning to take [...]

I have been enjoying this long weekend of non-Labor. On Friday I went to the DC Botanical Gardens and photographed… flowers, what else.

My 12 favorites
The rest
Anyone who can tell me the names of any of those plants wins a special prize (my undying gratitude). Of course they all had little plaques [...]