September 22, 2008
Go Home Already: Gathering Places
- The Woodrow Wilson Bridge will be shut down to auto traffic tonight from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. when the drawbridge opens for a ship to pass.
- A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was changing genders won a discrimination lawsuit. [AP via NYTimes]
- Got an extra vacuum cleaner you don't need? A needy resident living in a building under renovation could use it. [Bread for the City]
- Details available on the constructions plans for improvements to Columbia Heights's sidewalks, curbs and crosswalks. Work is scheduled to begin before mid-November and be completed within 18 months. [Examiner]
- The National Music Center and Museum Foundation located inside the Carnegie Library building at Mount Vernon Square has folded hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. [Washington Business Journal]
- There was another bomb scare at DCUSA over the weekend. [Prince of Petworth]
Photo by akkleis
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"The area also will be spruced up with ornamental trees, public art, lighting and a large, fountain-filled plaza"
I like the Columbia Heights improvements. I was hoping they'd add some trees, but do 'ornamental' trees actually grow?
The added bikes lanes will be much appreciated too!
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Ornamental simply means that they don't produce edible fruit. The flowering cherrys on the tidal basin are "ornamental trees" for example.
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ornamental, in the district, usually means something pretty small, like redbuds, dogwoods, or cherries. i'd put my money on the latter.
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One big benefit of ornamentals at this stage in streetscape design is that they are relatively small but have high visual impact. Their size is a bonus for maintenance because their roots don't usually cause sidewalk and curb buckling which end up costing DOTs lots of money over time.
Other things can be ornamental too. Like Sarah Palin.
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That's a shame about the National Music Center, although I wonder how many people even knew that such a thing existed? I still think that a National Music Museum could do very well. America has such a rich and diverse music history, and a lot of us don't know much about it.
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Great framing on the photo...
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Many thanks to DCist from Bread for the City: several of your readers offered to donate a vacuum cleaner to our client. It seems like a small thing, but it's really important for her.
Yay neighbors!
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Thanks also to DCist readers for their generosity--our client now has a vacuum cleaner!
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Thank you DCist for posting the Bread for the City link. Please do post more similar links in the future! There are a lot of generous people out there who are ready to give if given the opportunity. Thanks!