This lovely street scene is pretty typical on a weekend in Kensington. The town just north of Chevy Chase and Silver Spring is home to a number of different antique shops and boutique stores. The photo is scanned from a film print so it’s a little noisy and grainy but I think it fits in with Kensington’s old time feel.
Ok, here’s the last Azalea picture, probably coinciding with the disappearance of Azaleas in general
This is a picture from the Brighton Azalea gardens, which are located right next to the Triadelphia Reservoir. I had passed by here and even taken photos here many times before. However, I’ve never made it in the right time for the azaleas. Even this year I am at the tail end of the season, which you can tell by the green starting to show through some of the plant.
The Brighton gardens take over 5 acres of land and contain 20,000 azaleas. It was quite a site to behold.
This week we’ll finally get to so somewhere that I’ve never been able to see on account of timing.
This is a supporting structure from the bridge featured here. The bridge, which carries the capital crescent trail (actually at that point called the georgetown branch trail) runs over rock creek. Since this was just a little bit down from the rest of this week’s rock creek shots, it seemed like a good cap to the week.
These statues are located along the rock creek park trail. I’ve always wondered where they came from. They are clearly in someone’s backyard and they are clearly older than the home by which they stand. My curiousity really stems from the fact that they seem like they could match the statuary from the seminary, not one mile away. I’m assuming the similarity is just a coincidence and no one would steal something and then hide it in plain sight in their yard one mile away. However, every time I go past here I still wonder if it could be the case.
The potential snow and the realized rain are presenting serious risks to MDP’s ability to capture any more cherry tree pictures. I’d imagine that if we actually do get the snow we are supposed to get tomorrow that it may be something pretty cool to see.
It was odd to be taking this picture which yells, “It’s Spring,” as the thermometer in my car read 34 degrees. Odd as it may be MDP is on the lookout for more signs of spring.
A while ago, in fact a long time ago, we toured Rockville and ended with this picture of a statue outside the old courthouse.
The other day I noticed that the base of the statue was quite ornate. It made me wonder if the year 1891 played some sort of significant part in the town’s history. Upon doing some research, I discovered that the year 1891 appears on this base because, not surprisingly, that was the year the courthouse was built. It was the third courthouse built on this site.
Since that day, as is the trend with many municipal buildings, they’ve decided to add buildings rather than tear down old ones and replace them with larger courts. It seems to be a trend across many towns that somewhere beginning in the mid 1800′s buildings were built for more permanent use.
