Petworth has received some beautiful new welcome banners. They are great! Makes me a little less sad that we don’t have our own heritage trail. Petworth established 1899 according to the banners. Dig it the most.
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Author: Prince Of Petworth
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I’ve always loved this house too. It appears to be an old storefront that is connected to the corner rowhouse. Think of the possibilities.
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Christmas count, still going strong as of Feb. 21st!
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I love this house. Very cool colors. It doesn’t matter how cold it is when I pass this house, I always seem to warm up a little, and for some reason the sun always seems to be shining.
This block of New Hampshire is one block north of the previous post. The difference? 3800 NH Ave has a terrific crew. Every morning I see their people outside cleaning up, in the freezing weather, rain, snow, whatever they are the best. And it shows. If we could have more house/apt management like that, well, the photos speak for themselves.
And I found a blog post. This is a filthy section of New Hampshire Ave, check out the next post one block up.
Got this at 9:05 am from DC EMA:
DCFD and MPD are on site at Georgia Ave & New Hampshire Ave. NW, treating injured pedestrian.
I was sent an email this morning telling me about a website covering the Ward 4 special election. You can access it here. It was started by a guy named Jeff Steele who says:
“This website is non-partisan and unaffiliated with any organization. It is a private effort aimed solely at increasing access to information about the upcoming election.”
It has lots of good info on the candidates including upcoming events. I think it is worth checking out.
A friend of mine had a recent tragedy and I had to light out of town quickly. This was shortly after the snow we had and I didn’t have time to shovel my walk. I started feeling bad because I know I have been angry when I am forced to walk through unshoveled paths. So my flight was very early in the morning and I figured I’d have to shovel at night when the snow was frozen. But to my surprise and delight when I came home that evening my walkway was already shoveled. And not just the sidewalk but the path all the way up to my house. How beautiful is that? This is a perfect little example of the type of community we have in Petworth. People look out for one another. I have neighbors who watch my house just as I watch other people’s houses. And from what I’ve heard this is very common in Petworth. So I’d like to thank my neighbor for shoveling the walk. It meant so much to me given the situation I was in. Good neighbors and a good community is a beautiful thing.
Now, I don’t like to judge but I was going to the metro the other day when an unmistakable smell hit me in the face. It was the smell of a Grateful Dead concert, or a Phish show, and instantly associated with Bob Marley. The fact is some kids love getting high outside the Petworth metro station. Now, I wouldn’t write about it if I haven’t witnessed it on more than one occasion. I like to think that I am not too naive. Now, if it was Friday night or Saturday night I wouldn’t think twice about it but when it is Tuesday morning at 8 am and sub freezing weather, it makes me think our youth may have a problem. And they most certainly were young kids. I hope the candidates for Ward 4 address this issue. Am I just totally out of it or is this normal behavior for high school or maybe even junior high kids?