Recycling Plastic Pots These are just some of the plastic pots I unwittingly acquired in April in my yearly fit of plant-buying. I gathered them here to wash them before looking for the least bad way to deal with them, … Read More
Chatting with Greenbelter Aaron Solomon at the Farmers Market last Sunday I learned that Greenbelt Access TV is now on Youtube. So yay! And here’s what’s there so far, followed by offerings from other all-Greenbelt channels online. Greenbelt Access Television … Read More
You all remember GHI’s recent kitchen and bathroom renovation contests, right? The winners are here (kitchen) and here (bathroom), with photos and their tips for us. The contests were conducted by the Architectural Review Committee chaired by Lola Skolnik, and … Read More
Greenbelt celebrates July 4th at Buddy Attick Park, starting with community drumming led by Katy Gaughan (a force of nature – just watch!) Next came the Greenbelt Concert Band and the fireworks.
Originally published on Bad Wolf DC 6/23/15. The Circulator Experience DC has had Circulator buses for 10 years now but it wasn’t until last week, with the opening of its long-awaited National Mall route, that I finally rode one. I discovered … Read More
by Kathie Jarva, chair of the GHI Woodlands Committee A huge THANK YOU to all the neighbors who joined members of the GHI Woodlands Committee on Saturday, June 20, to cut down a prodigious amount of Golden Bamboo from GHI … Read More
The 446-acre treasure that is the National Arboretum has seemed down on its luck these last few years. It had a short-term director (not a plant person), then several acting directors, and worst of all, a two-year cutback on public hours … Read More
And grand it was! Festive, too. Apologies to everyone I didn’t identify in the video with captions. I’d add these missing captions if I knew how to do it using the Youtube editor: Mayor Emmett Jordan being interviewed by Hillary … Read More
How about a new feature here on the old blog – fun day trips from Greenbelt! Guest blog stories welcome – just leave a comment. So I’ll start, with a place I began exploring last summer and returned to recently … Read More
Hillary Gottemoeller and Joe Harris – the performing couple formerly known as the The Bachelor and the Bad Actress – were married yesterday in Roosevelt Center, a place I’ll forever think of as The Church of You and Me – … Read More
If you’ve walked around Greenbelt Lake recently you’ve probably noticed this scene along the path – a swath of gold and lots of lavender action, too. I was wow’ed by this scene enough last year to search out the gardener … Read More
I’m still as busy as ever but how can I NOT blog about the opening of our much-missed, better-than-ever historic Greenbelt Theatre, under exciting new management?? The soft opening was Friday May 1 and as executive director Caitlin McGrath said … Read More
Capacity crowd and lots of laughs last night at the New Deal – a Tuesday night, y’all. It was the first of what will be a monthly event (4th Tuesdays) and boy, are we lucky to have good stand-up right … Read More
By Li’l Dan Celdran, GES parent On Wednesday, December 3 Greenbelt Elementary School hosted an assembly for all its students and staff regarding its new recycling program. Dr. Luisa Robles, Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Greenbelt, shared information … Read More
Before celebrating the new year, I decided to share images of some of the Greenbelt events I attended and photographed in 2014. Easy enough, since they’re all filed away under “GB Events 2014.” So to everyone who made these events … Read More
