In brighter news than the below, today is Marjorie Merriweather Post's birthday;
here's the foyer of her modest little home, Hillwood, on my last visit. You know
it's kind of an iffy day when thinking about Marie Antoinette cheers you up...
This is a peculiar time in Our Nation's Capital, unsettled and tetchy. The weather, after a long stretch of late June last week, turned dank and lowsome, and the trains, as you might have read, have been misbehaving. And, as you may also have noted, the politics aren't helping.