George and my little holiday tradition is to drive around and see the light shows our crazy neighbors (and then some) put on for the holidays. We stretched the “tradition” a bit to hit up the Mormon Temple in Kensington, Maryland for their annual Festival of Lights.
On Sunday, I drove up to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for a fun little get-together with some great local photogs from the group Starting a Wedding Photography Business. If you are in the business, this is a great forum in which to participate. Endless knowledge streams out of the archives, if you’ll only look. Highly recommend!!
A carrotmob is a group of people that get together and spend their dollars consciously at places that live up to the ideals we’d hope to find in all businesses – employing a carrot and not a stick. DC’s first Carrotmob took place today at Teaism in Penn Quarter. Among many other environment- and employee-friendly practices, Teaism provides paid sick leave for their employees, something more than 90% of restaurants fail to do.