Today we’re revisiting one of our earliest DCist Monument features: Sonny
Bono Memorial Park, which we first wrote about last December. The park has long been a curiosity even to District residents, and the mystery behind it (which turned out not so mysterious) was one of the inspirations for this ongoing series.

In the months since, big changes have dramatically altered the look and feel of the place — viz., the gryoscopic tilting of the Earth on its orbital plane which is responsible for the passing of seasons. In the dead of winter, only the grass and shrubs at the perimeter showed any color. When DCist headed over to the park recently, the first thing we found was…