Lazy Potomac on a Hazy Day in July

At a bend in the river the Potomac flows slowly past the town of Hancock, MD. My friend John and I walk along a section of the C&O canal that once followed the river all the way to Washington D.C. Maryland in the summer can be a hot, humid, somewhat oppressive place even up in the "highlands" of the piedmont and mountain areas. The river has that smell that rivers have and it made me wish we had a canoe so we could set off down stream.

To Form A More Perfect Union

At the Greenbelt (Maryland) Arts Center (formerly Greenbelt Center School) one in a series of limestone friezes by WPA artist Lenore Thomas depicts part of the preamble to the Constitution of the U.S.

Greenbelt, Maryland.

Well it was 17 years ago today, that the Cicadas last came out to play.

May 2004-My third time around with "The Locusts" as we called them when we were seven. I took Joana down to Maryland to see the Cicadian invasion. She liked them! Now that's a cool girl.