Our First Christmas Tree

Amy got us a little Italian Stone Pine at Whole Foods to serve as our Christmas Tree, suitably tiny for our tiny apartment, and decorated with glittery birds and glass balls and lights from Crate and Barrel, Macy’s, and CVS. It’s not a very big or grand tree, and it still lacks a topper, but it’s still our first tree for our first Christmas as a married couple, and it smells nice.

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Caturday!

Pandora, by the laundry basket, still on that towel, which we haven’t laundered yet:

Pandora on Towel

First Snow (Dec 2007)

It snowed all Wednesday, and we had at least an inch by evening. There’s just something about December 5th, I guess; in 2002, 2003, 2005, and now this year, the first significant snow of the season came to the DC area on Dec. 5th.

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The snow was not kind to everyone, however. Many sidewalks looked like this on Thursday, and near the Bad Ramps, a firetruck was parked while emergency responders tended to someone who appeared to have slipped on the cobbles and injured his legs: (not the ramps’ fault, but due to ice)

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Full photoset here, and also check out these snowy DC photos on CapitalWeather.

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Snow.jpg Snowing a bit harder out now. If it keeps up like this and stays freezing we should get at least an inch by afternoon rush hour.

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Dusting.jpg Snowing a bit this morning; DC got a light dusting. See the white stuff? That’s snow. Yeah, I know, wow, omg snow.

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DC Weekend Assortment

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(Upper left) U.S. Capitol and a clear, blue sky on a cold Saturday.

(Upper right) Paper plane near a Lunar Module landing leg at the NASM.

(Lower left) AOC workers set up the Capitol Christmas Tree, from Vermont.

(Lower right) Finches in a tree by the NMAI.

Caturday!

There was once this blanket that I really hated, because it was cheap and prickly; but Pandora really liked it. That kind of crisp, hedgehoggy texture appeals to her, just like it did to her brother Jasper, who liked to roll around on rough concrete sidewalks. Lately Pandora’s taken even more of a liking to a similarly prickly towel which fell out of my laundry hamper, and she’s been using it as her bed all week.

Also in this set: Pandora sprawled on the floor by my shopping cart, and a nice little macro closeup.

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