Archive for the ‘Petworth’ Category
Your Heat On Yet?
We here at the Wayan homestead are in a fight over the heat. As you can see, Taxi, like I is chilled by these 50 degree freezing(!) nights than only make it to 72 in the day. Yet my hot pregnant wife is refusing to heat the house. While I have no hope of hot [...]
More »Caution: Grant Circle Ahead
For all those that are speeding along New Hampshire Avenue NW, caution as you pass Georgia Avenue NW, headed north. Ahead is Grant Circle, and if you are going too fast, you’ll see it up close. About once a month, someone winds up in Grant Circle, with skid marks showing their lack of foresight. This [...]
More »Still Buying Houses?
I always thought these folks were kinda fly-by-night, the “We Buy Houses” crowd. Now I wonder if they are still buying houses or if they’ve flown out in this harsh new light. As they leave, I only hope they take their ugly signs with them. The worst are the “We Buy Ugly Houses” signs. Can [...]
More »What If You Are a DC Kisser?
Photo by Wayan Walking home tonight, I saw another DC kiss in action – this time someone backed into another car, and post-crunch, sped off. That makes me wonder: What do you do if your the DC Kisser? Do you flee the scene as this scofflaw did, or do you stick around and say your [...]
More »Tomato Crop Check: Still Red?
While this cold snap may make you think its winter already, I’m still enjoying the fruits of summer. Specifically, my amazing tomato garden. The green orbs of spring are still cranking out red globs of love apples ready for my enjoyment. And that’s even after Don raided my garden last Saturday. So let’s hear it [...]
More »Sherman Avenue Speed Trap
This is the view southbound on Sherman Avenue NW as you approach Florida Avenue NW – that parked police car is there specifically to give you a speeding ticket. I know not because I got one, but because after noticing it there for a few days in a row, I stopped and asked the officer [...]
More »Not a Good Sign in Petworth
Photo by Wayan A for sale sign does not bother me. A foreclosure sign insight some worry. But its the tall grass of household abandonment that generates concern for my neighbourhood. In this market where people are talking about 10% of borrowers behind or in default, I expect some pain all around, yet when pain [...]
More »Petworth Eyesore Update
I have an update on the visual pollution at Upshur and New Hampshire NW, the Petworth Eyesore, where a builder is trying to make what was once a shell into several apartments. After he tore off the porch, the recent rains have flooded the basement. And even though there are a few glassless windows, someone [...]
More »How I Want to be Remembered
Photo by Wayan Walking through Rock Creek Church Cemetery, I spotted this debris cluttered headstone. David Roy Moncrieffe II, may he rest in peace. And may all of us be so lucky to be remembered by our friends like his remember him, four years on. That debris, it was signs of a night spent remembering [...]
More »Fort Slocum: Hidden DC Treasure
Here’s an oasis of green you don’t see often in the middle of a city: Fort Slocum Park, where a cool urban forest abuts the row houses of Northwest DC. Nestled in northern Petworth, you’ll first notice Fort Slocum by the green hill you see on Kansas Avenue NW, the only remnant of the Civil [...]
More »A Schooling for The House
The E.L. Haynes Public Charter School at 3600 Georgia Avenue NW, currently serves Pre-K to 5th grade students in the Petworth neighborhood. They hope to add a grade each year until they are serving students through grade twelve. From this angle, you can see their new five-story school soaring over the existing Georgia Avenue businesses. [...]
More »DC Tomato Crop Check – Ripe?
Photo by Wayan Rolling with the WashPost article on the area’s tomato crop, I went and checked on my backyard garden this morning. The verdict: I got great gobs of green tomatoes popping out, but not a ripe one in sight. I do have crazy big basil from all the rain, but no ripe love [...]
More »Why I Love DC: Wayan
Photo by mosley.brian After five hours crammed into this seat on a red-eye from San Francisco, I can tell by the shift in the plane, that we’ve started our decent into IAD. Its another bi-coastal BBQ week for me, and I can’t wait to be home. Home, where the South Asian driver of the Washington [...]
More »DC Neighbourhoods Ablaze!
Photo by Wayan Washington DC has its official fireworks on the Mall, but forgive me I find them insignificant. For me, the formal symphony + lightshow is a distant second, if even ranked, when compared with the neighbourhood effort. And that would be every neighbourhood in this city – from Congress Heights to Foggy Bottom, [...]
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