~back to my "other" home~

~Pennsyvania Avenue, Washington, DC~

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Before Christmas, I took the Metro downtown with friends to see The National Tree - I still am sometimes caught offguard that I can get to the White House in a 15 minute Metro ride (and I think "do I really live up here?  Well, I suppose I do!).  Anyway, it was a beautiful December evening - and it had been raining (sometimes heavily) earlier in the day, but when we got downtown, the sky was filled with fast-moving white clouds, which helped to provide some reflective light in the night sky.  It was a beautiful evening.

Today I drive back to the DC area - after time spent with my Dad in Virginia and time spent here in South Carolina.  The past two nights have been chilly ones in the Airstream, but I was glad to be here to protect my citrus as the temperatures dipped into the low-20s last night (it is still only 23 degrees outside of the Airstream).  I'll keep the small trees covered, and have a friend 'free' them when the warmer weather approaches at the end of the week.  Also, it was rather perfect that I was here for the first heavy frost/hard freeze for the winter.  I arrived with roses and fall-blooming salvias in bloom, perennial morning glorry still clinging to the front fence and elephant ears still hanging in there - this morning the garden looks much different.  It just felt right that I was present for this necessary transition.

Comments

[katherine]

Nice photo! How I love city life.
So great to have you down heah!
Brother does time fly.
I dreamt my niecelets were poets.
Just the wild stuff they say.