baby grapes

These look like bunches of grapes, but this little fruit is actually smaller than a dime.  Did I eat this fruit despite not knowing what it is?  Yes.  No, not really, but it did cross my mind...

Where is This? #16 PUBLIC

OK Clarendanes, where is this "public" area in C-don?  Good luck, and god speed.


The last THREE quizzes have gone unanswered, so I've added hints to each.  Here's last week's, and the week before, and the week before.  I feel like a diabolical serial killer taunting the smart-yet-unorthodox detective desperately trying to solve the case by leaving clues to my true identity and the next victim.  SUSPENSE!  

under water mine

This kinda looks like those 'ol timey WWII harbor mines, but in fact it's a little red berry of some sort.  Maybe a baby strawberry?  Just in case, I took pains not to step on it.

red glow

These whirligig seeds are red--WTF?!  Crazy.  It's spiky leaves and shadow are in focus more than the pods, which helps create a nice glow.  

sad grass

Some sad, sad grass.  I think this is paint from when the gas company marks underground lines OR a new regulation on energy use.  Hard to tell.

meuahhh!

{you should write a haiku about me}

creepy grain of sand

This is the side of a white brick on a fancy fence, with a little red guy crawlin' along doing his thing.  Note that each little speck of white is the size of a coarse grain of sand.  Put another way, he's about the size of the "O" in "In God We Trust" on a U.S. penny.  I think this is a clover mite, but I'm often wrong about such things.


This is the brick and iron fence for the apartment complex on Washington Blvd across the street from the 7-11 (more accurately, across from Endo Sushi and that weird clock at Washington & 10th street).

red head

This thing is actually about the size of a large pea.  When I first moved to c-don and decided to take pictures, I thought that--unlike DC--there's just nothing to photograph around here that's very interesting; just a bunch of pre-fabbed houses and neatly mown lawns.  Well, it is that in a way, of course, but I came to realize that it was much more accurate to blame my lack of skills and unimaginative eye for the lack of interesting pictures.  Ever since then, I haven't had much trouble finding good pictures (well, 'good' might be pushing it, but you know...)--I just kinda give myself an angry "don't be boring" scowl and look a little deeper and a little longer and something always pops out at me.  I like this picture because it represents this concept to me.  Literally, this raspberry thing wasn't there yesterday, and today it was.  You just have to keep an eye out.

stop. yield.

for gg

If you live in Clarendon and ever see a lanky dude with a camera creeping up through your yard with a large lens, please don't call the cops on me.  I'm more of a flower voyeur than anything else.

vivid andre the giant has a posse sticker

Always amazed by the stickers that show up in the suburban neighborhoods of C-don.  The Andre The Giant sticker is yet another example of the weirdness that is this little area of the world.

station 4

Yep, Danielle got today's "Where Is This" quiz absolutely right.  The freshly washed firemobiles of the Clarendon Fire Department made for some nice photos last weekend.  These guys are awesome--high five, fire dudes.  More pics here.

White lines.  Don't do it, baby.

Actually, my nickname in high school was Four Inch Discharge.  Weird.

If you double click and look close, you can see a self portrait of myself. (...That was redundant).

When my ladder truck rolls up in yo city, bling bling.

More pics here.

Where is This? #5 shiny red

OK Claronauts, another quiz for you.  Where is this curvy-straight-curvy part of c-don?  If you think you know, drop a comment.  Last week's quiz and answer are here.  Good luck! 

barbed wire love

OK, not really barbed wire, but the rusty fence and flowers gives that vibe. Despite the mistitle, there's a bonus at the end of this post for my punk rock friends.