DC -- Golden Streets (Golden Triangle Tree Box Garden Contest):
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Description of Pictures: GOLDEN STREETS: Enjoy some familiar sights with our annual Golden Streets competition! Each year, neighborhood property owners showcase flowers and plants in beautifully-designed tree garden displays. This year’s theme, “Happy Habitats,” is an extension of the Smithsonian Gardens’ “Habitat” exhibition, a two-year Smithsonian-wide exhibition exploring one big idea: protecting habitats protects life. Later this month, be sure to check the website and social media to view the winners.
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Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
GARDEN_210531_01.JPG: Be Happy
Be Bright
Be You!
GARDEN_210531_07.JPG: Speak Beautiful Things
GARDEN_210531_17.JPG: You got this!
GARDEN_210531_19.JPG: Looking Good Today!
GARDEN_210531_22.JPG: Win the Day!
GARDEN_210531_25.JPG: Be Awesome Today!
GARDEN_210705_01.JPG: Golden Streets
An annual tree box landscaping contest
2021 Theme: Happy Habitats
Golden Triangle in partnership with Smithsonian Gardens
GARDEN_210705_11.JPG: Bees' Pollinator Garden
Indigenous plants and habitat-friendly design help bees thrive while they pollinate the neighborhood. When pollinator's thrive, we all thrive!
GARDEN_210814_04.JPG: Golden Streets
An annual tree box landscaping contest
2021 Theme: Happy Habitats
Golden Triangle in partnership with Smithsonian Gardens
GARDEN_210815_004.JPG: Golden Streets
An annual tree box landscaping contest
2021 Theme: Happy Habitats
Golden Triangle in partnership with Smithsonian Gardens
GARDEN_210815_007.JPG: Sight
What is your favorite yellow hue?
GARDEN_210815_032.JPG: Sight
Orange is friendly and exudes confidence!
GARDEN_210815_038.JPG: Smell
The fragrant oil from lavender is used to promote calmness and wellness.
GARDEN_210815_055.JPG: Taste
Tangy dill, sweet mint, pungent chives -- a market in the making!
GARDEN_210815_066.JPG: Sight
How many colors do you see in this gazing ball?
GARDEN_210815_070.JPG: Touch
Tactile differences in surfaces can be felt down to the molecular level!
GARDEN_210815_075.JPG: Sight
Creating harmony is one characteristic of blue -- how many others are there?
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2021 photos: This year was filled with hope. Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us but it was hoped that restoring sanity to the White House. the rapid vaccine role-out, and a government that finally cared would put things back to normal again. But the force was strong in the evil anti-vaxxer movement and the virus variants made quick use of that so we're still dealing with this crap. Plus the continued impact of the Trump putsch attempt... Sigh.
Trips this year:
after getting fully vaccinated, I made a trip down to Asheville, NC in May to visit my dad and his wife Dixie and returned again in early October,
in mid-July, I made a quick trip up to Stockbridge, MA to see the Norman Rockwell Museum again as well as Daniel Chester French's place @ Chesterwood.
Number of photos taken this year: about 283,000, slightly up from 2020 but still really low.