Below Freezing Daytime Temperatures

Visitors to our front porch feeders:









Tux, one of the friendlier neighborhood feral cats:
Outdoor cat we came upon while walking back from the inauguration:

Happy Obama Day

The Capitol festooned:

Last week Mayor Fenty took the President Elect to Ben's Chili Bowl and there have been lines ever since:

Merchandizing Obama:
Photo-shopped Obama with King; Obama air fresheners:

We are too old to freeze, huddled with the crowded masses standing for hours on the Mall, so we watched from home and, once it was over, took the Metro to Eastern Market and walked to the West Front of the Capitol.

The inaugural crowd disperses:
An MLK banner, one of many banners throughout the city:
Abe Lincoln on a cell phone; the not-so-secret Secret Service:









The masses from the Mall:
The deserted podium on the West Front:
Colin Powell leaving the Capitol grounds:
Metro was swamped:

Dutch Country Market

Annapolis, MD, Jan. 17:

Philadelphia Murals, Italian Market, Cheese Steak

The Philadelphia urban scape is filled with wonderful murals:









Gay community center:





















The Italian Market:





































Ground zero for the Philly Cheese Steak:

Mummers on New Years Day

Philadelphia, Jan. 1, 2009: "Think thousands of (mostly) straight, (largely) working class, white Philadelphia guys channelling gay pride day, Mardi Gras and Liza Minelli in Vegas."--Melissa Dribben, Philadelphia Inquirer.

Fancy Brigades:


















The mummer's strut:

Comic Brigades:



































































































String bands:




















































































Off the parade route: