I found a source for
real Latvian rye bread and it isn't far from my office! Last week at Debbie's retirement party I happened to be wearing my amber necklace and struck up a conversation about it. Turns out her mother is from Latvia and she knows the local sources, including the store
European Delight Deli & Bakery which is just a short walk on the other side of the Twinbrook metro station. They've got a lot of other products, especially from the Balkans, Russian, and Eastern Europe. In fact a lot of it has labels I can't even figure out!
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| Here's a real-from-Lativia loaf of rye bread |
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| In other food news this was a really excellent chocolate bar I got at Cost Plus World Market a while ago. It is worth remembering for future reference. |
This brings me to pictures of DC.
Aniekan Udofia is my favorite
mural artist working in the city and he has two pieces in Barracks Row and Eastern Market.
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| "American Express" by Aniekan on 8th St SE, south of the freeway...call this Barracks Row South. |
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| Cirque du Soleil at the Eastern Market Aquatic Center |
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| Note the DC flag theme (3 red stars and 2 red stripes) worked into the mermaid's ribbons. |
Last week Greta and Shinyoung were in town for a workshop on the data in the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and they hung out with me on Sunday. Really fun to see them! When are the rest of you going to come visit me? That's how I see new things in the city too. For example we found the gorgeous Leonardo da Vinci piece in the National Gallery of Art this time.
Ginevra de' Benci is lovely and she's the only da Vinci in North America.
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| Greta and Shinyoung on Pennsylvania Avenue |
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| Greta and Sarah on Pennsylvania Ave |
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| Greta really likes her Cumberland at Taylor Gourmet |
A couple of weeks ago the serviceberry bushes (genus
Amelanchier) in front of the church on 4th Street were just loaded. I picked a bunch and showed several neighbors that you can eat them too. Many years the berries get an orange fungus and aren't appetizing, but the cooler weather this spring must have protected them. I can pick them faster than huckleberries because they grow in clusters so I can grab berries by the handful.
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| Loaded berry bushes |
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| Basket of berries |
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| Service berry muffins |
Finally here's proof that I've been busy lately. Four meetings that required airplane travel this spring!
1 comment:
Did I tell you how great your new haircut looks? Super awesome. I am super jealous and you are causing to well up within me a desire to cut my own hair into something similarly cute, although intellectually I know this is a terrible idea. The one time I tried short hair, I could not *wait* until it was long again and I could get it up off my neck. Still, think how great it would look...
No plans to come out east this summer, unfortunately. But ... let me know if there is a good time and maybe I can make something happen. There's no *reason* I can't just up and go somewhere for the weekend if I want to, and I don't get out of South Bend nearly enough.
Oo, that reminds me, you'd get a kick out of this. For breakfast, I ate a basket of "pineberries" I bought at the farmer's market. They were deeply weird and delicious, and I loved them. Wish you could have tried them, as I think you'd have appreciated it! They are some weird varietal of the strawberry - they look like strawberries, except they turn white when they are ripe, and they taste like a cross between a strawberry and a pineapple. Bizarre!
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