Badass Brookland: July 2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Saturday, July 30, 2011

July 30, 2011 : Ithaca NY

These guys have some great beer (plus root and orange soda), and they open up their front doors to tasters and tourists on the weekends. We went twice.

Laundromat

Podiatrist Sign

Friday, July 29, 2011

July 29, 2011 : Ithaca, NY

Shiny City on a Hill: Cornell University in Ithaca, NY

the reunited couple by sunset

My partner went to the Cornel School for Critisism & Theory (aka summer camp for grown-ups) for 6 weeks, in Ithaca, NY. This is the weekend I drove 6 hours north to pick him up.

Sunset from the top of hill on the Cornel Campus overlooking Ithaca

Comrade Tubman public art / mural

Real men in Ithaca love the Cowbows?

July 29, 2011

Utility work for Chancellor's Row

The dug up the greenspace outside my condo apartment's window for like two weeks. I dealt with it because it means that the development is going to raise my property values.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

July 28, 2011 : Public Art near Dupont Circle

Public Art near Dupont Circle

Sunday, July 24, 2011

July 24 : Franciscan Monastery, Brookland

Franciscan Monastery, Brookland, NE DC

Bernadette having a vision of the Virgin Mary

The Virgin Mary appearing before Saint Bernadette

Medicinal herb garden at the monastery

Ornate stonework at the monastery

July 24, 2011 : Artspace Lofts

Completed Artspace Lofts Building

July 24, 2011 : Brookland

Galley Beauty Supply, Quincey St at Monroe St, Brookland, NE

815 Monroe St NE just after the Homecoming Bridge

Cleaners on 12th Street at Newton Street, NE

Saturday, July 23, 2011

July 23, 2011 : Adams Morgan

Adams Morgan Building, Columbia Road at Fuller St NW

July 23, 2011 : Public ArtPo

Pot-smoking Lady Liberty, electrical box near Dupont Circle

DC Brau sticker, near Dupont Circle

Hello Robot, near Dupont Circle

Angel art near Dupont Circle

July 23, 2011 : The White House

The White House, Washington, DC

Thursday, July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011 : Columbia Heights

Meditating Frog on Monroe Street bet 16th & 14th St NW

Barbara's Beauty Supply, 14th Street at Newton St NW

July 21, 2011 Brentwood

Stoplight on 9th Street before NY Ave, Brentwood NE DC

Car Auction in Brentwood

July 21, 2011 : Sarah & Joeseph

Sarah & Joeseph at her birthday party

Joseph was one my first friends when I moved back to D.C. in 2006. We met at the Modern Times cafe friday Open Mic series, and bonded over cigarette smoking and shared socialist interests. In 2008, our respective girlfriends broke up with us in the same week, totally separately, and our friendship really solidified when we had lots of sad bastard not-dates together at his house in Pleasant Plains, and my apartment in Brightwood.

We're both happily dating awesome people, and I've become friends with Joe's girlfriend Sarah, who lives in Mount Pleasant, and comes to yoga classes with me.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

July 19, 2011 : Deanwood

Eads Street NE at 45th St, Deanwood

I sold this house in Deanwood to a couple who are friends of mine. I hadn't ever been to Deanwood, a great residential neighborhood tucked in between the National Arboretum to the North, Eastern Avenue to the East, and East Capitol Street to the South, before I was showing them properties. Working with them was a really great set of adventures, discovering and being awed by new-to-me areas of my beloved city.

July 19, 2011 : Cleveland Park

Summer Flowers on Calvert Street in Cleveland Park, NW

Monday, July 18, 2011

July, 18, 2011 : Columbia Heights

Monroe Street bet 16th & 14th Sts NW, Rowhouse garden

I park on Monroe Street between 16th & 14th Street, NW when I drive east to my Columbia Heights studio from my job in Friendship Heights.

Monroe Street bet 16th & 14th Sts NW, American Flag

I think the street is uber-charming. One time, during a big snow storm and I had left my car at home, and I walked across Monroe Street right here and EVERBODY had shoveled their walk, and it smelled like fireplace fire, and it was the best thing that happened to me all day.