beets, dc + lots of good.

i couldn't get over how much the smell of beets reminds me of my grandmother as i was peeling and chopping the bunch i'd gotten from my CSA today. beets are totally the kind of food i forget i love til the're in my face, and then i remember that they're pretty much the best thing ever. i'm hoping i manage to do them justice in preparing them, and crossing my fingers there will be more in next week's share.

this weekend was, for the most part, pretty great. we snuck down to DC for the weekend, where a lot of relaxing, napping and drinking of wine commenced. we also managed to get to the fdr memorial (the best presidential memorial - a narrative in landscape architecture - totally awesome), the national gallery, the washington monument (erik claimed he'd never been there), and we caught a sousa festival at the jefferson monument. awesome. sadly, the portrait gallery (which i've never visted but is high on my list for next time) was temporarily closed, along with the museum of american history (which is my favorite smithsonian for two easy reasons: ice cream parlor, dorothy's ruby slippers). walking along king street in old town after dinner, we happened upon a funny little independently owned theatre showing "get smart", that served wine and ice cream (okay, so maybe normal people don't pair these things, but they're both delicious and you know it). so our movie-going experience was unexpectedly fun, even if the movie was a little disappointing (sorry, steve carrell, but i really enjoyed the get smart of my nick-at-night days more).

things to be excited about this week?
tree tenders leadership training, a brooklyn cyclone's game, a revival of the philadelphia bloggers meetup group, and a wheat beer festival at the south philly tap room, for starters... yay.

Comments

[Rachel]

I would love to go to the national gallery! Sounds like a fun trip!

[roz]

tree tenders on wednesday? see you there! also, may pop by the wheat beer festival... and i guess we will be running too!!!

[Amanda]

So I commented on your beets twitter comment today... and then I realized, you don't have me on your twitter list... so you probably didn't get my twitter comment... which was something along the lines of "What do beets taste like?" And I'm seriously interested.... cause I've never had one.
also.. add me on twitter!

[Liza]

I'm looking into the bloggers' meetup right NOW! (I'm probably a bit late, but who knows!)