Text and photos by David Jonathan Cohen Two parks – one compact and the other sprawling – offer havens to wildlife in Forest Hills. Astonishing diversity is dense in Linnean Park. Pieces of four streets mark its perimeter: Broad Branch Terrace, 33rd Street, Linnean Avenue, and Fessenden Street. The park owes its resurgence to daylighting […]
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Meet Your Neighbors update: March 12 talk explores an 82-year Harvard study of adult development
The talk scheduled for March 12th has been postponed to avoid a gathering that might put anyone at risk of coronavirus. A quarter century ago, David Cohen discovered a Harvard study that began in 1938 and continues to follow its participants and their descendants to this day. “With my lifelong interest in how people shape […]
Five things I learned from five years of photographing birds
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 the sun, the clouds, the shadows, my lens, and the bird? In a photo of a downy woodpecker, I see a sequel to days of […]
Meet Your Neighbors update: September shows for some local artists
September brings out our local artists! David Cohen, Deborah LaCroix and Annette Polan are featured in local shows and talks in the coming days and weeks. David Cohen David Cohen, the wildlife and portrait photographer who has generously shared his work with Forest Hills Connection will be exhibiting this weekend at the 48th annual Glen […]
Neighbors Recommend: The butterflies of Montgomery Parks’ Brookside Gardens
by David Cohen Love vibrant color and stunning design? Marvel at the magic of nature? Go crazy over butterflies? Then April 18 is your day! Walk into “hundreds of brilliant live butterflies from North America, Costa Rica, Africa and Asia…” Discover “their amazing metamorphosis, the important role butterflies play in healthy ecosystems, and how to […]
Neighbors recommend: Mason Neck State Park
by David Cohen For a major urban area, we’re lucky to have easy access to the great outdoors! On November 13 and 26, I made my first visits to Mason Neck State Park. The park – about an hour by car from Forest Hills – is more than 1800 acres near Lorton, Virginia. Its visitors […]
Meet some of the intrepid creatures colonizing Broad Branch stream
by Marjorie Rachlin We’ve got pollywogs in our new stream restoration at Linnean Avenue and Broad Branch Road, an important sign of the “colonization” changes that will make the area green and lovely in a year or so. These pollywogs (or tadpoles, if you prefer) are hiding under leaves and debris in a small pool […]
2015 Flashback: Our wild life
We bid farewell to 2015 with a collection of stories about our wildest neighbors: The flora and fauna of the forest and even our own backyards. Marking the seasons: See the beauty of our parks wrapped in snow and ice, the blossoms of spring, the seeds of fall… and the blossoms of winter? Wonderful wildlife […]
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s just one thing DC residents can be thankful for
More terrific nature photos from David Cohen, who writes: In the spirit of Thanksgiving, permit me to give thanks for the marvelous parks inside the District of Columbia! Here are five autumn images from the National Arboretum. Taken on October 6, 2015, they include a northern mockingbird. By the way, the National Arboretum (3501 New […]
Photos: Fawns of Forest Hills
David Cohen found this doe and two fawns grazing in his yard recently. When I stepped onto our back porch, they went into an alert. I was able to take several photos before they ran off. Our house adjoins parkland. Even so, I marvel that these deer posed for me inside the District of Columbia. […]