Last week’s stop on the “Hugo sees the world” tour: the Arlington Count Fair.
It may not be the Great Minnesota Get-Together or the Texas State Fair, but it’s a start, and it didn’t require exiting the Beltway, nevermind getting on an airplane.
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I am fascinated by the leadership scenario at UVa, and can’t wait to see how things unfold. As things currently stand, I’ll be shocked if Theresa Sullivan is not reinstated (and the Rector, Helen Dragas, doesn’t resign).
But either way, this seems to be an important marker for the future of top-flight public universities.
(via Teresa Sullivan: The ousted U-Va. leader who may regain the post - The Washington Post)
Nice visit to the tasting room at Port City Brewery, Alexandria, VA..
Some nice tasting beers, including a full-bodied pale ale, and the porter (pictured) that I would stack up against many higher-profile breweries!
I love this photo, which captures the 1984-meets-Blade Runner-meets-Batman Returns “dated urban futurism”*that is at the core of Rosslyn, Virginia.
When I was an undergraduate student across the river in D.C., I used to think that the entire Rosslyn neighborhood was just a front for a top-secret government organization. Now, I realize that Rosslyn’s architecture symbolizes how people (investors, architects) envisioned the future at various points of the twentieth century.
*I just made that term up, I think.
(h/t Greater Greater Washington for the photo).
Stink Bugs Causing Crop Damage in Maryland
These little stinkers are popping up more and more in DC, but we saw literally thousands on our orchard trip to Markham VA this weekend. From FoxDC:
THURMONT, Md. - They are small, maybe the size of your fingernail, but they could cause huge economic damage.
We’re talking stink bugs. Not the one’s that have been in our area all along, but a new invader.
It eats just about every crop. And in some parts of Western Maryland, they’ve caused massive damage.
They may not look like much, but they’re tough.“Little tanks. Little armored tanks. I call them a lot of other names I can’t put on camera,” says Bob Black, owner ofCatoctin Mountain Orchard in Thurmont, Maryland.
The brown marmorated stink bug is enemy number one - not just at Bob Black’s orchard, but for the University of Maryland Extension and the U.S.D.A. They have all come together to try to help.
At Black’s orchard, the stink bug has cost him 20 percent of his apple crop this year and for some farmers in other parts of Maryland it’s much worse.
“A big apple crop this year, so with 20 percent out of that we have 80 percent to sell of great qualilty apples, so we’re in good shape. We don’t want that to go to 30 percent damage next year,” says Black.
Native to Asia, this insect with the striped antenna appeared in the U.S. in the mid 1990s.
Tracy Leskey of the U.S.D.A. made the first detection in Maryland in 2003. Since they are non-native, this type of stink bughas no natural predators. They feast on lots of fruits and vegetables grown in our area.
They don’t burrow through like a worm. Instead they suck the juice. It’s sort of like drinking through a straw. They leave behind dry, brown spots on the fruit.
Closing out one of the all-time great Saturdays with Irish tunes and brews at Murphy’s in Alexandria.
Capital Square in Richmond VA — showing 18th century (a.k.a., not the Confederate ones), with General George Washington at the top.
