On Down Farmington Drive

Then Bryans Point Road:









A great blue heron in the marsh:

Songkran in Accokeek MD

April 20: A second Songkran festival; this time at the Wat Tummaprateip on Farmington Road in Accokeek, MD. During Songkran, the Buddhists pray for rain and we had plenty off and on.

There were many vendors:









Fried bananas with sesame seeds and lots of curries:

Distributing food to the monks:









Shrine to a Bodhisattva:
Monks and meditation huts:

Saturday Afternoon

The Real Spring Show

The tourists come for the cherry blossoms but us locals know that the best comes later when there are crabapples,









Redbud and wisteria,























The deep pink pom pom cherries,
Viburnum:









Grape hyacinths (with bee) and scilla:









Tulips and daffodils:









The first of the azaleas:

Songkran Festival

Sunday, April 13: We met Peg and Jackie at the Songkran Festival at the Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silver Spring MD:

We ran into Maureen:
We go mostly for the food:


















Bedding plants for the Thai kitchen garden and Thai ready to wear:









The festival gets crowded after 1o a.m.:
We are leaving at the time when food is offered to the monks: