Tag: Outings

out: friendship heights spray park

August 31, 2010

sparklet must of walked around this place for 20 minutes today, held up by some kind of fake-lawn-mower-works-like-an-old-dude’s-walker thing. unfortunately, i was alone so all the photos are decidedly top-down.

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friendship heights spray park, washington, dc
out: national sculpture garden fountain

August 30, 2010

not sure we’ve ever been to the sculpture garden when it wasn’t 20 degrees out, but it’s actually quite lovely. they even let you hang your feet over the edge — or in sparklet’s case, her face.

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national sculpture garden, washington, dc
out: walter pierce park

August 7, 2010

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out: walter pierce park, washington, dc
out: national gallery of art

July 19, 2010
out: coleen @ cloverhill yarn

July 9, 2010

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coleen @ cloverhill yarn shop, catonsville, maryland
walter pierce playground

July 2, 2010

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walter pierce playground, washington, dc
kalorama park

June 30, 2010

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kalorama park, washington, dc
hike: matildaville trail, great falls national park, va

June 25, 2010

sparklet’s first hike. didn’t make it long (45 minutes) or far (definitely short of two miles) but it mostly worked. she hates wearing a hat, tho — that lasted all of about 30 seconds.

trail information:
Trailhead: 38.997516,-77.255065 (Google Maps); Length: 1.8 total miles; Elevation Gain: < 100 feet; Trail Type: Loop (Canal Trail, to Matildaville Trail, to Old Carriage Road); Skill Level: Easy.

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matildaville trail, great falls national park, va
baby zoo animals

June 23, 2010

there’s been rash of baby animals being born at the national zoo — gorilla, red panda, kiwi, hornbills, etc — and because we never really make it past the petting zoo, we hadn’t managed to see any of them.

it’s crazy hot right now, which has mostly kept us inside in the afternoons, but we made a rare exception and drove over to the zoo to run in an see the new baby gorilla in her (mercifully) air conditioned enclosure.
travel: please touch museum

June 12, 2010

this is quite possibly the greatest museum on the planet.

they have (in no particular order) the “walking piano” from big, a huge basement devoted to recreating wonderland (as in alice, not val-kilmer-as-porn-star), and an entire wing dedicated to kids versions of big people places (grocery store, kitchen, gas station, etc).

seriously, this museum alone made philly worth the trip.

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slideshow: please touch museum, philadelphia, pa