Good morning, DMV! It’s Thursday, June 4.
The past several days, I’ve been running on low, so I’m giving myself a mental health day. Today, I offer you reader photos.
📷 Your joy
(Vivian Clark)
Vivian Clark, 70, sent in this photo she took on May 30 at her home in Virginia Beach.
“It's a very tiny moth that fluttered out from a crevice in the wall as I was painting the exterior of my house … This moth is so tiny that I almost didn't give it a second glance, but the pink color caught my eye and I took several pictures of it before it flew away,” Vivian wrote. “The moth is about the size of a pencil eraser!”
(Tanya Priest)
D.C. resident Tanya Priest wasn’t able to join our Daily Dose bird outing with experts on April 22 to learn about the purple martin houses at Georgetown Waterfront Park, so she went the following day and sent me this photo.
She wrote to me about the purple martins: “there were so many buzzing around and singing. absolutely beautiful!”
(Dan Woolley)
Dan Woolley, of Herndon, Virginia, sent me some photos he took on April 27.
“While returning to my back porch, after collecting my morning newspapers — yes, I still like to have the physical edition(s) — I noticed the dew drops catching the sunlight on their leaves and how the intense rays of the early sunlight spread across the Bleeding Hearts in the garden. Could not pass up the photo op,” he wrote to me in an email.
(Dan Woolley)
“I enjoy reading your ‘Daily Dose’ before I spread out the various papers on the kitchen table and fill my coffee cup. Your personal journey, perspective and synopsis help me frame the news cycle and set the tone for the day ahead.”
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