This was the first weekend when DC felt really, really like Spring time.  It was warm, sunny, and blissfully un-humid (I’m not sure what the opposite of humid is if it isn’t actually dry).  Although I was in the library nearly all day Sat, on Sunday we spent several hours outside with friends at the [...]

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Snaps from our 2008 Cherry Blossom picnic.
In the cherry blossom’s shade
Kobayashi Issa
In the cherry blossom’s shade
there’s no such thing
as a stranger.
available online via Poetry Chaikhana.com

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*Cross posted at gnovis*
Secretly, I’m not a huge fan of April Fool’s Day.  It’s the only holiday where being kind of mean to somebody counts as “celebrating” and, quite frankly, I don’t like jerks.  Snopes.com collected several theories on the origin of the holiday, most having to do with old calendars and spring– nothing too [...]

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