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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Swimmingly
Yesterday I drove up to Washington DC for a walk in the U.S. National Arboretum to take a peek at how this year’s azaleas are coming along. My conclusion is, swimmingly! Swimmingly in both a figurative and a literal sense … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking, Photography
Tagged Arboretum, azaleas, Mount Hamilton, nature, outdoors, U.S. National Arboretum
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Ups and Downs
Last Saturday I had a trip planned to the Shenandoah National Park (SNP), a repeat of the combined hikes at Dark Hollow Falls and Hawksbill we did last June. Since this was to be the first trip to SNP in 2014, … Continue reading
A last look at the falling blossoms
Last Sunday I scheduled a 4-mile walk on the National Mall for the last day of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, to see the long-anticipated blossoms at their fullest bloom beginning to fall in flurries, like light pink petals of snow floating on the … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking, Photography
Tagged cherry blossom, Cherry Blossom Festival, cherry blossoms, Enid A. Haupt Garden, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Martin Luther King Memorial, Mary Livingstone Ripley Garden, National Cherry Blossom Festival, outdoors, Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, the National Mall, Washington DC, World War II Memorial
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W.R. Hutsell’s World War II in Europe
Getting another classic Hutsell MS-DOS strategy game up and running Background Quite some time ago I wrote about W.R. Hutsell’s VGA Civil War Strategy, a wonderful little MS-DOS gem that is available as a free download at Hutsell’s Games. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Games
Tagged DOSBox, get it to play, Hutsell's Games, MS-DOS, VGA Civil War Strategy, W.R. Hutsell, wargame, World War II in Europe
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Finally
After the dreary last weekend in March, with the unexpected snowfall on Sunday, this past weekend finally propelled us forward into Spring, and we celebrated with a nice walk around the National Mall in Washington DC on Saturday. We started … Continue reading
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