Okay, maybe not that much of an upheaval, but I thought I would at least try to start doing more of these, at least on a more timely basis!
If you haven’t seen the news for the past month, there was a major snow and ice storm a couple of weeks ago, and DC was hit fairly hard, somewhat by snow but mostly by sleet and ice on top of the snow.
We’ve also been mostly below freezing for two weeks, which hasn’t helped, but this past Wednesday the temperature got up to 50 degrees, so I figured I’d go back downtown and walk around a bit. I did that last week, and got some pictures but it was too cold to do much.
This week though, it’s been warmer, and I got to places I couldn’t go last week. I managed to park in the Potomac Park parking lot and walked to the Jefferson Memorial on the Tidal Basin. It was a much nicer walk than last week, although the ice and snow were still quite thick, and the Tidal Basin was still mostly frozen over, but the ice was noticeably thinner. Even the Potomac River near the DC Wharf restaurant area was frozen over, with the only boat that I could see possibly stuck in the ice.
We’ll see if I can keep up this blistering pace of updates!