It's that time of infrequent but welcome warm days preceded and followed by rainy, cold, windy ones made tolerant only by bright colorful early spring flowers. We took a nice walk around the neighborhood recently starting at our buildings loading dock where we saw some soggy old discarded pictures on the ground.





We headed over to the embassy area whre the cherry blossoms and daffodils were in bloom.





The National Cathedral can be see through the treetops in this last picture.

Movie reviews

Stranger Than Fiction: A story of a man who starts hearing a voice narrating his life and realizes that he is a character in a book and that he is going to die in the end. It was nice to see Will Farrell in something a little more thoughtful that his usual comedies. He was delightfully subtle and the movie was a nice combination of quirky and surreal.

Rachel Getting Married: Wow! I found this movie about dysfunction during a family wedding very powerful and moving. The directing was a little self indulgent but I liked all the activity/cameos/camera angles and the story and the performances of the main characters were amazing. The father is played by Bill Irwin who was a performance artist/clown/mime in the 90's. He did a great job in the movie but it was fun to see small glimpses of his past career in some of his body language. I have to say Anne Hathaway did an surprisingly good job as a recovering alcoholic.