“We’re out here pretty much every day, weather permitting,” he tells me.
So why not invest in some chairs? Or, you know, a table? I am clearly an outsider.
14th and V Streets NW in Washington, D.C., any afternoon. Photo by Rhea.
Category Archives: Image for the day
Image for the Day: From trending to touching
Welcome to the DC State Fair… Seedling Swap, that is. Yes, the florescent grow lights, online buzz, and mass emails somehow culminated yesterday in about three dozen humans sitting shoulder to shoulder, touching leaves. Squinting and sweating and smiling in the sun.
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Photo for the Day: True Leaves
My zucchini seedlings came into their own this week. From between the generic cotyledon lobes that feed the plant before it takes energy from the sun, they unfurled their true leaves. Spikey, spunky, furred. The original solar panels.
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Image for the [May] Day
“Don’t just watch us; come and join us,” the marchers chanted yesterday, surging down 14th Street in D.C. from a rally in Meridian Hill Park. Three or four passersby stood in Thomas Circle. We took pictures. We shot video. This was not my father’s May Day.
Photo by Harry Chauss
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Image for the day
I count two references to Chinese political dissident Chen Guangcheng as blind and 22 lines of text before his name appears in this article. Other articles do bump up Chen’s name.
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Rhea Kennedy Morgenstern, writer 