DC Excursion

Posted April 3, 2011, 10:11 p.m.

My sister Kristen came up to visit for the weekend. On Friday we went to Joshua Hoover’s great reception down at Carbon in Washington, DC. Then, yesterday afternoon (Saturday), we went down to Hains Point and the Tidal Basin ostensibly to see the cherry blossoms. Of course, one cherry blossom looks the same as any other as far as I’m concerned, but whatever.

It was a little chilly and it rained part of the time we were there (and even hailed a little), but then it cleared up and was a bit better. I brought my camera and took a bunch of photos. Some are of the blossoms, but, as usual, I mostly focused on other random stuff. Pictures below!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Thomas Jefferson

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

Siddhartha Gautama

There is nothing progressive about being pig headed and refusing to admit a mistake.

C.S. Lewis

As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.

Elie Wiesel

Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worrying is pointless. God is merciful and he will hear your prayer.

Pio of Pietrelcina

The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.

C.S. Lewis

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing. . . .

Paul the Apostle

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Elie Wiesel

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Alexander Hamilton

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Jesus Christ

A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

Lao Tsu

Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. . . .

Jesus Christ

The natural law is a beautiful reality, an empirically verifiable fact of creation. Together with natural theology, it is accessible to everyone as a kind of ‘natural religion.’

Scott Hahn

Some acts are always wrong—that is, intrinsically evil—and may never be done, no matter what the intention or the circumstances.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle

A great man is always willing to be little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Catholic Church

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both.

Edmund Burke

Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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