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Backyard Nature: January provided a warm welcome to the area’s early bloomers

February 3, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Marlene Berlin January was DC’s warmest in 73 years, and the third warmest on record, according to the Post’s Capital Weather Gang. This might have coaxed some early bloomers […]

Filed Under: Backyard Nature, Featured, Featured Photos, News, Style

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Photos: Nature’s icy holiday ornaments

January 6, 2023 by FHC 5 Comments

by Marlene Berlin Some of our neighbors go all out when decorating for Christmas. But the most spectacular decorations I saw over the holidays were completely natural. After celebrating the […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Broad Branch, Featured, Featured Photos, News, Parks and Streams, Rock Creek Park, Style

Photos: Art All Night 2022 draws a crowd

September 30, 2022 by FHC 2 Comments

Art and music draw a crowd. So do cider and donuts… and fire dancers. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Van Ness Main Street (@vannessmainst) Van Ness […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Photos, Forest Hills, Main Street, News, Van Ness

Photos: A winter (but sometimes less-than-wondrous) wonderland

January 5, 2022 by FHC 6 Comments

by Marlene Berlin I’m recovering from a knee injury. But on Tuesday, the sunny skies and fresh snow beckoned me. After removing snow from my yard trees and bushes, and […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, Featured Photos, News, Style

Photos: Keeping our eyes on the skies

December 10, 2021 by FHC 2 Comments

As you may already know, we are on Twitter. The @ForestHillsNews Twitter feed is embedded in the ForestHillsConnection.com sidebar (and on mobile, near the bottom of each page. Sorry to […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, Featured Photos, Forest Hills, News, North Cleveland Park, Style, UDC, Van Ness

Friday’s windstorm was unusually intense

May 3, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

Friday was more than a little windy. The Post’s Capital Weather Gang reports on some of the factors that made this windstorm unusual, including its late April appearance, its hours-long […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured Photos, News

Photos: Future flower power in Van Ness

November 12, 2019 by FHC

by Marlene Berlin Talk about delayed gratification. About two dozen volunteers came out Sunday, November 10th to plant daffodils and other spring bulbs along the west side of Connecticut Avenue […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Photos, Main Street, News, Things To Do

Five things I learned from five years of photographing birds

August 8, 2019 by FHC

by David Jonathan Cohen In the last five years, I photographed birds in parks and wilderness on three continents. Here are five things I learned. Use the light. Where are […]

Filed Under: Featured Photos, News, Wildlife Photos

Photos: A Forest Hills snow/slush day

February 21, 2019 by FHC

by Marlene Berlin Residents of Forest Hills DC woke up to snow on Wednesday. We are used to waking up to the sound of early morning snowplows on these days, […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured Photos, News

Photos: Broad Branch and Linnean Streams on ice… and an unexpected touch of spring

January 25, 2019 by FHC

by Marlene Berlin Cold and clear weather provides a great opportunity to see our local streams dressed up in their icy finery. On my walk Wednesday to Broad Branch Market […]

Filed Under: Featured Photos, News, Parks and Streams

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