POTD: Yellow

Ahhh, Spring daffodils!

POTD: Hello!

I’m telling you, I was dog-tired of that snow and rain and ick. I am so glad to be seeing some flowers, enjoying warm air, and just generally unwinding!

POTD: These Yours?

These babies have been hanging outside my house since Snowpocalypse I (in December). I found ‘em on the sidewalk, buried in some snow.

They yours?

POTD: I Heart Lamp

Here’s a neat shot by Rockville Central friend Janet Piczak Brown. Here’s what she says about it: “I saw these lovely lamps in the Giant parking lot (Hungerford Dr.) today. Since everyone is always in so much of a hurry I wonder how often they are noticed?”

I wodner too! I had not noticed them, and I go there all the time.

POTD: Pagoda

Here’s the last one from my disappearing-snow-at-Welsh-Park series. As the snow melts, solid itens that had been encased in it get arranged in unusual patterns. The stick across the pine cones made me think of a Japanese pagoda!

POTD: Fish

I thought this was a little plastic fish in the old snow . . . and then I saw it was a toothbrush! I’m slow, but I get there.

POTD: Unearthed

As the dirty snow mountains at Welsh Park begin to thaw and shrink, the debris and detritus encased in them begins to emerge.

POTD: Signage

Here’s another from my study of the “mountains” of old snow at Welsh Park. This looked to me like a trail sign at the beginning of a mountain trail, like the Appalachian or Pacific Crest. But that’s not a mountain in the background . . . just a pile of snow.

POTD: JW

Today Rockville is holding its 150th birthday celebration! In honor, our friend Herb Winkler tracked down a photo of the old Julius West House through Peerless Rockville. This shot dates from 1860. (The West Rockville Elementary School referred to in the caption was opened in 1954 where Beall Eelementary now is, I believe.) Thanks Herb, and thanks Peerless!

POTD: Bird

The City’s snow removal workers had to put all the snow somewhere. One place is in big piles at the parking lot at Welsh Park. Now that it is all melting, it has created this interesting mountainscape. I took some time out to do a study of it over the weekend, and I thought I would share a few with you. This shot is of an interestingly-shaped little nubbin of melted snow.