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I’ve been making my way through the hikes in 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Washington DC, mostly the ones closest to DC so far. I photo things that catch my eye, most often flowers along the trail. Here are a few that I’ve seen so far this spring:
Here are a few photos from the trip. I’ll look through the phone cam shots next and post any good ones I find.
We took a trip to Grand Cayman at the end of February. We’d last been there about ten years ago. It didn’t seem all that different, maybe a couple more hotels along the beach, and there was more traffic than I remembered.
We went on a guided nature walk on the Mastic Trail. I was amazed at the variety of wildlife we encountered, but only managed to photo a slow-moving dove and unmoving tree frog.
The cherry trees around the tidal basin and elsewhere started blooming in earnest last weekend. Here are a few examples of what I found:
Abiword is a nice, fast word processor. OpenOffice.org is better for importing and editing complex documents, but it can be painfully slow so I only use it if I have to. Abiword is also usually very stable, so I was surprised when it started crashing on startup. I tried upgrading, I tried downgrading, but it kept crashing. I finally found this bug report at Redhat’s Bugzilla. Comment 8 mentions starting Abiword like this:
$ abiword --geometry 800x600
Not sure why or how, but it worked!