Rock Creek Park (Washington, DC)
By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
My home is in a neighborhood that is surrounded on three sides by a national park, and this time of the year, it looks like it's on fire.  The park is set along Rock Creek, which runs from Georgetown to Gaithersburg, Maryland.  There are riding trails for bicycles and horses, tennis courts and lots of wildlife, including deer, foxes and at least one coyote.  And the wildlife they won't let run wild is living comfortably at the National ZooBut my favorite thing is stopping on my way home from showing property and just looking at and listening to the creek, and today the place looked like it was on fire.
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By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
 Last week, George Souto started something with shots showing the progression of change on the leaves in his area.  So I am doing a bit of a copy cat.  I took the top picture a week ago near Carter Baron Amphitheater in Rock Creek Park.  You can see there are some yellow leaves, but it's still mostly green. Here is the same scene a week later, and it's still pretty green, except for the new patch of red in the upper right-hand corner.   Now we'll see what next week, with temperatures in the 80's, will bring.
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By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
Speechless Sunday:  Why they Call it Rock Creek I am a lucky woman.  When I drive from my home to my office, it's through a national park with a beautiful creek that runs through it.  And they have little areas where you can pull over and, if you want, pull out your camera or iPhone to snap a shot.   
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By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
Yesterday, Rock Creek was frozen in several places.  It looked thick enough to skate on, but ice skating on the creek is probably never a smart idea - the ice is never really as thick as it looks.  By this afternoon, when the temperatures inched into the 60's, we started to see patches of grass.  With warm weather predicted for tomorrow, Rock Creek could get pretty wild with the rapidly melting snow and ice.  More photos next week! 
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By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
Washington's "White" ChristmasThis season, we've been having unseasonably warm weather here in Washington, DC.  And on Friday, the white for Christmas was not snow, but fog.  It was the kind of morning where you could go down into Rock Creek Park wearing a sleeveless T-shirt!  The building is the old Pierce Mill, dating back to about 1820, and it's beautiful in any weather.  
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By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
Before the Taft bridge opened in 1907, getting from downtown to Cleveland Park involved a rather circuitous route.  But this bridge changed everything.  It provided a direct route along Connecticut Avenue to Cleveland Park, and eventually up to Chevy Chase.  Several times each week, I go under this Wasington landmark on my ride home.  Along Rock Creek Parkway, and at least during the evening rush hour, there is a very long backup that allowed me to snap this shot!  
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By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital
(RLAH@Properties)
When I drive to my office at Evers and Company, the route takes me through a national park, and last week, the drive was spectacular.  On the day after our last snow (and I do hope it's the last of the season), the sky was a bright blue and the sun was illuminating the ice that was clinging to the branches of the bare trees. Then the pine trees looked like they had flocking on the branches. And I must say that I did get really sick of the snow while it was here.  Even though the streets were cleared, a lot of the houses I showed had sidewalks that looked like they belonged at winter Olympic skating venues.  And getting up and down un-shoveled steps and sidewalks, then loosing my boots so I didn't track it into the house - well, it all wore pretty thin.  Luckily I made it without fallin...
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