The United States Botanic Garden is a favorite summer destination, and the list of reasons to visit has gotten longer. In a recently opened exhibit, Celebrating America’s Public Gardens, the nation’s most important public gardens have sponsored mini-displays in two sections called Green Today, Growing Tomorrows (in the National Garden, at the Mall end of the grounds) and A Sense of Place (on the Conservatory Terrace, facing Capitol Hill). In the latter exhibit, each garden’s…

We can’t wait to see Flickr fill up with sunny, colorful spring images – a few of you have already headed over to the U.S. Botanical Garden for some pre-gaming – but we couldn’t help but post at least one more cold, wintery image. Flickr user LaTur found the perfect ambiance for this creepy and isolating night shot. EXIF….

FRIDAY: >>Today is Bastille Day, which commemorates the Fête de la Fédération of 1790, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille July 14th, 1789 — basically it’s all about sticking it to the man and rising up as a French nation. But as all noble foreign holidays seem to be celebrated in America, we’ve turned it into an excuse to eat and drink too much. Last year we put together a…