Even though the peak blooms were this past weekend, there’s still plenty of fun to be had down by the Tidal Basin. I just learned about ranger guided lantern walks – National Park Rangers give free guided tours of the cherry blossoms by lantern light on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday evenings from 8 – 10 [...]
You’ll notice a theme – we like other people’s houses. Especially people who live in nicer places than ours. And the DC area is rife with house tours. I always liked the Georgetown House Tour with one exception – they used to spread it over two days and there were always one or two houses [...]
This weekend the Rose Garden, the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden the Children’s Garden and the South Lawn of the White House will be open for the annual Spring Garden Tour. Also on view (from a distance) will be the very popular new “Victory Garden” or the White House Kitchen Garden as it is officially known. [...]
It does seem to be a weekend of Festivals, and if you don’t want to drive to Baltimore (but alas, no sour cream), you can join me at the Rosslyn Jazz Festival at Gateway Park (the corner of North Lynn and Lee Highway – a mere two blocks from the Rosslyn Metro). It starts at [...]
I can’t believe I totally missed the start of Jazz in the Garden. But after the lingering cold and lack of spring like weather (other than the raging pollen count), it just escaped me that it could be that time already. But here we are, so it’s time to skip Friday happy [...]
In DC, the best house tour to score is the White House. And while the rules on getting to tour the White House are more complicated, they still do the occasional open tour. This weekend is the first of three summer garden tours at the White House. The other scheduled dates are July 21 [...]
And it’s like – totally free. Well, free insomuch as you need to show up at the Carter Barron, the Shakespeare Theatre or The Washington Post offices the day of the performance to line up for the free tickets. This year they will be performing Love’s Labor’s Lost beginning May 24th to June 3rd. Can [...]
I know it’s short notice, but if you wake up and are surprised to find that it’s nice outside (contrary to yesterday’s weather report) then mosey over to Adams Morgan and Kalorama for 86+ Yard Sales because you can never have enough crap.