Last day of winter today, how about that?
Tomorrow, it’s officially spring!
Or, that is the way I see it.
Some people here claim that spring starts on March, 20. At Spring equinox, or “The first Day of Spring”, as they say here.
But no, I say that spring starts tomorrow. March is indeed a spring month.
But sure, even here we can get big blasts of winter weather in March.
Big, big snow storms are known to arrive in March.
But, regardless of that, it is spring.
The light signals spring!
Nature is ready for spring!
This has been The Winter That Never Was.
The weirdest winter I can remember.
We have a record early spring this year.
Saturday was cold AND snowy!
No snow stuck to the ground, but it snowed for a good while.

The star magnolias are blooming right now.
These prunus are the earliest of our blooming trees.
Peter and I went to Congressional Cemetery in DC on Sunday morning.
Now, this is an interesting—and ODD—cemetery.
A lot of dignitaries are buried there, congressmen and women, senators, mayors and journalists among others.
At this cemetery people can let their dogs run free …
The dog owners have to buy an annual membership in order to walk their pups there.
It is both a dog park and a cemetery ...
SO strange. SO very strange. SO odd!
The dog owners are also volunteers at said cemetery. Meaning they have to help with everything from cleaning the grounds to archiving documents. Interesting.
The whole place is random as can be.
One of the strangest cemeteries I have been to …
It is like a mix between “a regular cemetery”, a dog park and the big cemeteries I visited in New Orleans 2919.
It felt … random … to say the least. So random.
It was cold as we were walking around the tombstones.
But the early prunus trees and daffodils were in bloom there, so lovely.
Enough talking, I’ll show you pics!
I guess you can bury your fur babies here as well. If you study the grave stone in the background you'll find that the owners are still alive ... But their stone is already engraved and in place ...
And under this unassuming stone rests one of the most famous political journalist of all times, Cokie Roberts.
A dog crosses the road. All the dogs we encountered were nice and well behaved. And that is a good thing since I am kind of afraid of dogs. Peter is not, he loves them all, haha.
A memorial, and grave site, of the civil war photographer Matthew Brady. Here's a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
Have a very good Tuesday.


But there is something SO fascinating with this cemetery.
There are so very many famous people buried here.



Southern magnolia trees dots this cemetery. I can only imagine how lovely it most be to see them in bloom.
So there you have it, Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC, what a place ...