Good morning, DMV! It’s Tuesday, February 24.
My husband likes to keep track of who’s passing along the thoroughfare in our yard that we’ve dubbed the wildlife highway (or animal highway).
He has trail cams set up around our yard. The one in our front yard sees the most action. Sometimes, a fox, deer and raccoon will pass overnight or over the course of a week. In recent days, a cat joined the mix. The animals often stop at the same spot, have a sniff, then carry on. I don’t think we’ve seen the opossum in a while, but it tends to stick to the back yard.
Yesterday, some birds were hanging out on our front doorstep, near the paltry pickings in the snow-covered bird feeder. My husband took pity and sprinkled some fresh victuals for them. I stood by the front-door window and watched several small birds pecking away.
On an adjacent note: Did you see the video of otters playing in the snow at the National Aquarium in Baltimore yesterday morning? It is just the joy I needed … and is exactly the way my family reacts to snow days.
[If you can’t click through to the link on that image, try clicking here to see the video on Instagram and here for Facebook.
📰 News around the DMV
27 Things to Do in the DC Area This Week and Weekend (Washingtonian)
🎨 Art exhibit ends Sunday
“The Stars We Do Not See,” a show of Australian indigenous art at the National Gallery of Art, ends this weekend. If you can go in coming days, there’s a tour at 11 a.m. Friday, and on Saturday, a talk with artists Claudia Moodoonuthi and Alick Tipoti, a gallery talk with the exhibition curator and a didgeridoo musical performance by Cameron McCarthy. (That sounds pretty cool, but sadly, I can’t make it.)
The gallery wrote a list of seven stand-out pieces from the exhibit, including Mun-Dirra, a piece also known as the Maningrida Fish Fence. Here’s a video about the 330-foot-long piece that is based on a traditional fish trap used for hunting.
The exhibit travels next to the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Portland Art Museum in Oregon, and Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
📷 Your joy
(Richard Thompson)
Richard Thompson, 76, sent in this photo he took yesterday morning of his back yard in Monrovia, Maryland.
“The temperature has been above freezing here … but the ground is still snow-covered,” he wrote to me yesterday evening. “Most of the snow that was on all of the tree branches is gone. My wife says we had about 6" of snow.”
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