DC Excursion

Posted April 3, 2011, 10:11 p.m.

My sister Kristen came up to visit for the weekend. On Friday we went to Joshua Hoover’s great reception down at Carbon in Washington, DC. Then, yesterday afternoon (Saturday), we went down to Hains Point and the Tidal Basin ostensibly to see the cherry blossoms. Of course, one cherry blossom looks the same as any other as far as I’m concerned, but whatever.

It was a little chilly and it rained part of the time we were there (and even hailed a little), but then it cleared up and was a bit better. I brought my camera and took a bunch of photos. Some are of the blossoms, but, as usual, I mostly focused on other random stuff. Pictures below!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

Jesus Christ

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, God is the father of us all, and we are all brethren.

Frederick Douglass

I’m an American, and most of the time proud of it. Even when I am displeased with what my country is doing, I am still an American who is displeased.

Maya Angelou

Let the nation try justice and the problem will be solved.

Frederick Douglass

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

G.K. Chesterton

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men—from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Oscar Wilde

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, . . . the first greatest [favor you can do them] . . . is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

Dorothy Parker

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.

Elon Musk

It takes reason and will to sin.

Peter Kreeft

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra

It has been said it makes no difference what you believe; it all depends on how you act. This is psychological nonsense, for a man acts out of his beliefs.

Fulton Sheen

Christians are made, not born.

Tertullian

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Holy Bible

What I have done I have done, because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it.

Mark Twain

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Patrick Henry

Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Theodore Parker

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

Elie Wiesel

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