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Bees and Sunflowers

George and I are sharecroppers.  We pay to rent someone else’s land, then do what we will with the produce… at our local community garden.  I put our name on a list and a year later we got accepted.  At first, it was very exciting.  And then we realized that the weeds never, ever stop coming.  Our garden is now a horrific mess of a place.  We never work on it.  It always needs water.  It certainly didn’t help that our enormous cherokee purple tomato plant only gave us two usable tomatoes.  The other two were eaten by birds and the plant hasn’t seen fit to set any more fruit.

But sometimes, when you’re visiting in the morning, before the heat of the day makes the trip unbearable, you come across about a million bees hanging out on the sunflowers, dancing around in the beautiful morning light, and you have to take a picture (or two).

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Trivia Night – Super Grain

My friends are dorks, what can I say?  Some of us are dorky in the socially awkward sense (hand up) and others of us are dorky in the huge-repository-of-random-knowledge sense.  The Random Knowledge guys destroy trivia nights all over this town.  The rest of us have a few beers and struggle to fill in the gaps.

Last night we came in third at 51st State, which did not earn us any bar credit.  It’s a very dark bar so I’ve jacked up the exposure, on top of ISO800.  I kind of like the grain – gives it a good gritty feel.

On the street, the colors were really weird but kind of neat also.

And because I love you (and me), here’s a self-portrait I took while waiting for George to do some stuff at his work.  I’m not allowed in because he has one of those no-guests-allowed government jobs.  So I sat in the car and took pictures of myself.  It’s a pretty standard situation.

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Storm Damage

A powerful thunderstorm moved through Arlington and Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC yesterday afternoon.  From DC it didn’t look all that terribly strong – not any worse than the 3 or 4 other storms we’ve had in the last few weeks – but it did some major damage to trees in the area.

George and I had a party to attend.  An ice cream eating party, as it were, which was somewhat fortunate as our friends’ power was also out.  The ice cream was getting soft so we went right to work.  But before we could get there, we had to sit through lots of traffic due to trees in the road and such:

We passed a dude filming the above tree.  His truck was unmarked and he seemed to be alone.  Pretty impressive equipment for an enthusiast.  Perhaps local media?

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