FOCI and PETS 2025

FOCI and PETS the rest of the week.
The walls and ceiling of the DC metro, which I've always liked.
Emerging into the haze of corruption.
George Washington statue in Washington Circle. The horse is unnamed.
Nice handpainted sign at St. Paul's.
Washington Harbour, little shopping center and boat dock on the Potomac.
Visible: the Watergate complex and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Not visible: lots of fishes and stuff.
Embarrassing typo that strangely was repeated on a lot of signage.
View of Rock Creek near its terminus at the Potomac.
The fogging will continue until morale improves.
Saudi Arabia embassy.
"Long Live Stinka"
Walked outside for an hour and got drenched with sweat.
Alexander Pushkin memorial.
И долго буду тем любезен я народу,
Что чувства добрые я лырой рпбуждал,
Что в мой жестокий век восславил я свободу
И милость к падшим рпизывал.
GW's river horse.
Sign advertising the American Center of Polish Culture.
Gotta love a ½ address.
The Polish cultural center was closed.
„GREETINGS FROM WROCŁAW”
Democracy Tree. "This Tree is dedicated to the more than half million veterans, taxpayers, and citizen of the District of Columbia who, despite fighting in foreign wars, paying their full measure of taxes and faithfully serving their country, continue to have no voting representation in the Congress of the United States of America."
Looking up at the Democracy Tree.
.zip TLD in the wild.
Palindrome.
The little-traveled pathways of the hotel stairwell.
Poetry Post!
…Sadly empty.
Curious! You call yourself a 7-11, yet your address is clearly 912.
Georgetown Public Library having a book sale. Also it's raining.
Cool looking library.
Buy books by the bag.
Two shoppers' worth of purchases: Free Fall, The Ghost in the Machine, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
You put the library on Book Hill, think you're pretty clever, don't you.
Free Palestine, end genocide.
Weird stuff inside! This is still Georgetown BTW.
Blurry lanternfly thru glass.
Rock Creek adjacent to a grassy area.
Very strange malfunction on a display at a bus shelter. What could cause these pseudo-circular holes?
Tearing at the top.
Church of the Pilgrims. I knew it would have a Wikipedia page before even looking it up.
Memorial for Taras Shevchenko, 1814–1861, Bard of Ukraine.
1337
This Trader Joe's has a hippo mascot, likely in honor of GW's river horse.
St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church.
Memorial sundail for Louis Ross, doctor and friend.
Day 1 of mushrooms.
Kościuszko, approximately. In Lafayette Square.
Gate at the DC Chinatown. Notice the right-to-left writing of 中國城.
東方青龍, eastern green dragon or something like that.
Cash for your Warhol.
Squishy GW Engineering robot souvenir.
"Seek truth and pursue it steadily."
Day 2 of mushrooms.
Dianetics ad on the side of a bus.
Flying pig at Foggy Bottom neighborhood.
Lanternfly.
Day 3 of mushrooms.
Dante statue in Malcolm X Park.
Offerings for Dante: Tor sticker, vintage U.S. quarter, Candian octoonie.
Joan of Arc statue, in the style of a PS1 horror game.
Outdoor sunscreen dispenser.
Long Live Stinka.
ΔΤΔ hoop.
Kennedy Center at night, seen from the Georgetown Waterfront Park.
That's Virginia across the river.
Francis Scott Key bridge.
More PS1 horror game concept art.
Trying long-exposure photographs of planes taking off from National Airport. Here I missed and just got the sky.
4 seconds.
4 seconds.
8 seconds. You can see the green and red lights on the starboard and port wings.
8 seconds.
This one I bumped the camera.
Rhino.
Rhino.
Planet Word museum.
Short story receipt printer, like in Iowa.
Elevator interior done up like bookshelves.
Really cool exhibit here, the screens have people telling you about various languages, and as you play with them the globe animates to highlight relevant geographies and play little animations.
"The limits of my language are the limits of my world," quotation from the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus.
There's a whole audio/video presentation that goes with this sculpture of English words.
The true story of the 3 little pigs and Corduroy.
Karaoke room at Planet Word. They highlight the lyrics to show writing techniques such as assonance and chiasmus.
A room where you paint different style words onto a scene, looking just like a scene from The Peanut Butter Solution (1985).
Interactive where you can make your own advertisements using different rhetorical techniques.
One word that describes my family is: Goobers. Here's why: Goobers.
One word I love the sound of is: rendezvous. Here's why: Not spelled how it sounds.
Peach cobbler, yum.
Tic-tac-toe on the bike lockers at the metro station.
Love U too babe.
Crossword puzzle in Street Scene.
DEST: LastTrain. Had a super early departing flight, one people's early is another person's late.
Nearly deserted at about 3:00 AM.
Lego model of Dulles Airport.
Broken display.
You'll be waiting for the bus a long time.