Icebergs on the Potomac

Brrrr. Click the photo to enlarge.

Winter Fun in the Pacific Northwest

Moon Rise Over Ski Lift at Silver Mt. in North Idaho. Check out that non-existent lift line.

A deserted cross-country trail at Mount Spokane.

My 2009 Reads

Washington Square by Henry James
Many lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss
Candide by Voltaire
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (I may admit that I actually read the Twilight series 3 times this year. But only if you promise not to judge.)
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Night Watch by Sarah Waters*
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux*
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli*
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood*
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (again) by J.K. Rowling
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
The Movie Goer by Walker Percy
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin*
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

* Top 5 books I recommend.

Shopper Stopper '09

Nineteen inches of snow fell on Alexandria this Saturday and helped us get in the holiday spirit. We took a walk in our neighborhood, B helped out a few passing motorists and we stocked up on provisions before hunkering down with hot buttered rum and watching it snow for 24 hours. The next morning the sun was out and everyone began the long process of digging out, which two days later, people are still working at and frequently getting stuck in the street outside our window.

End of an Era

Good-bye old apartment of 5-years. Sniff.