Musical Wanderer

Part of the fun of living in our neighborhood is the curbside sharing of, well, almost everything.  Lamps, books, shoulder bags, hats, dishes, glasses, bookshelves, furniture--anything that people don't need anymore is left out by the sidewalk for someone else to make use of.  Inevitably most of it is snapped up.  We have a fair number of odds and ends that we ran across and have found useful.  We found a somewhat rusty bird-feeder a couple months ago and repurposed it, after removing the plastic feed tube and adding a plastic bird skeleton and a red light, as a Halloween decoration. Most of the stuff on the street are household items with likely no story for previous owners except their former utility, though someone left a nice HO train set on the street after Christmas last year, probably after their kids got bored of it.  I found the small framed picture above on the street today.  I picked it up not to reuse the frame--though I have found some good pic...

A couple years ago, I heard a DC biologist give a talk at a National Zoo volunteer gathering about the wildlife present in DC.  He had motion camera photos of coyotes, foxes, bobcats, otters, eagles, and assorted other fauna found in DC.  I'm stealing the title of his talk above for this collection of photos of critters we've seen the last month or so wandering around the DC area.  Some places we saw them are in DC proper, some just across or in the middle of the Potomac River.  Ok, the pictures are mostly of birds, but there is a nice surprise at the end. Seagulls photobombed while standing on the frozen Capitol reflecting pool Washington Monument behind willow tree and Canada goose standing in reflection in Constitution Gardens  Canada geese hanging out in Washington Monument reflection in Constitution Gardens Dyke Marsh lies south of DC in Virginia between the Potomac River and George Washington Parkway.  The most visible sections lie along a bike ...