Despite the presence of clouds, it’s beautiful.

After several days of anticipation, the Botanic Garden’s corpse flower bloomed Sunday afternoon.

Finally, a good time-lapse of the scaffolding and lighting of the Washington Monument.

Using a publicly available data stream, a YouTube user created a cool time-lapse video showing every Metro bus and rail trip in a 24-hour period.

Here’s a very cool, kind of eerie video that shows what D.C. might look like if it were stripped of all signs of animal life—including humans.

It might not be as dramatic as similar videos captured during snowmaggedons of yore, but time lapse again appears to be the method of choice for documenting last weekend’s storm.

Strapped for time and haven’t yet had the chance to click through our photographic recap of Monday’s fireworks? No worries. Thanks to our friends at the Capital Weather Gang, this time lapse video can provide you with the full experience in but 63 seconds.

That poor little teddy bear didn’t stand a chance….