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Connie
Posts Tagged ‘Woodley Park’
Zoo Morning
Friday, May 17th, 2019American holiday/French pastime
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018On this Fourth of July, how we honor France for its financial and military support of our revolution: a round of pétanque with the neighbors.
Sounds of Spring: Carolina Wren
Saturday, April 14th, 2018
The Green/Greed Space of Woodley Park, Part Four
Monday, May 23rd, 2016Part Four of a comic on a current neighborhood issue, and, for now, the conclusion. To Be Continued…
Sondra
Jay
Tony
The Green/Greed Space of Woodley Park, Part Three
Sunday, May 22nd, 2016Part Three of a comic about a current neighborhood issue. See May 21st for Part Two.
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Wendy
The GREEN/GREED SPACE of Woodley Park, Part Two
Saturday, May 21st, 2016Part Two of a comic about a current neighborhood issue. See May 20th for Part One.
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Tom
Daniela
Chrissy
The GREEN/GREED SPACE of Woodley Park, Part One
Friday, May 20th, 2016Part One of a comic about a current neighborhood issue. Sometimes you just have to laugh…
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Winter Snowdrops
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016The first of March is still winter—and yet here are the faithful snowdrops emerging beside the front walk, a perpetually hopeful sign of growing things to come. I had to run and fetch the sketchbook.
Polly
A New Library
Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
Our local well-loved and popular but shabby post-WWII Cleveland Park Library is destined for replacement, and the project has brought out library-lovers in force, many making specific requests for new features (Quiet study spaces!–Better handicapped access!–Net zero energy use!) and specific requests to keep what is currently beloved (Light, warmth, and coziness!–Wooden shelving and furniture!–Children’s room memorabilia!–Our terrific staff!).
Above all, neighbors overwhelmingly requested A Building Not Like Tenley! (a nearby brand-new library branch modern in style but also regarded as cold, dark, noisy, hard, and uncomfortable). Instead residents hoped for a warm friendly building, whether modern or traditional, compatible with the neighborhood’s 100-year-old farmhouse-style houses and the nearby art-deco theater and apartments. This is looking to be unlikely.
You can see the design concept on the Cleveland Park Library website, where it is drawn considerably better than in my cartoon above.
Dad
Snow, Blessed Snow
Saturday, January 23rd, 2016A sketch from the studio window, and a poem I post in thanks for this brief interlude of beauty and silence.
Snow,
blessed snow,
comes out of the sky
like bleached flies.
The ground is no longer naked.
The ground has on its clothes.
The trees poke out of sheets
and each branch wears the sock of God.
There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
I bite it.
Someone once said:
Don’t bite till you know
if it’s bread or stone.
What I bite is all bread,
rising, yeasty as a cloud.
There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail.
—Anne Sexton
Salome