Quality, not quantity, eh?
The first sentence (more or less) of the first post for the last twelve months:
- 7 January: In the winter holiday break, I Amtraked up to Philadelphia to take in the Barnes Foundation (underwhelming: the pictures can’t breathe) and reacquaint myself with the Duchamp room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- 4 February: So we’re halfway thru the run.
- 3 March: From this week’s nest box report: “Ice on the ponds, so we made like the icebreaker ships.”
- 8 April: At least 47 hasn’t promoted Incitatus to consul. Yet.
- 2 May: My report for April to the team: “Whew! I am caught up with my paperwork for the moment.”
- 3 June: Sited art and found art in NYC.
- 8 July: Amplifying signal from Maryland Native Plant Society: With summer officially here, outside activities are on the rise and so too are encounters with ticks.
- 9 August: A word that pops up in Elmer Rice’s Street Scene, both the stage play (1929) and the screenplay (1931):
- 4 September: A quick report from the meadow unit of Elklick Woodlands Natural Area Preserve, accompanied by Darko Veljkovic and other Fairfax County Park Authority Staff.
- 4 October: Another view through a Tony Smith work, this time Smug (1973/2005), snapped during my first visit to Glenstone…
- 7 November: A quick stroll in woods and meadows of a section of Leopold’s Preserve that I hadn’t seen before, led by Marion Lobstein and Claudia Thompson-Deahl.
- 3 December: More fun with punctuation marks: I recently learned that the humble colon (:) is used in Swedish names…
The year in review: