A bowl of steamy soup sounds delicious right about now, after running into a few drifting snowflakes on the way to work this morning. The folks at Gracious Bowl were thinking just that, and the people in this photograph are probably enjoying some homemade soup as you read this, thanks to them. Meeting at the DC Guesthouse last night, they participated in the DC Soup Swap, each bringing six quarts of their own winter concoction to trade with others, along with recipes, stories, and some canned goods to give to charity. Sounds like the perfect cold weather activity to us.

Flickr user static-photo took this nicely warm-toned shot of Michelle Sasscer selecting some Japanese Root Vegetable Soup, and if you’ve got any of that left over, Michelle, you know where we are. EXIF.