Hamlet Place Hallowe'en

Chevy Chase Club fireworks, as seen from the Saks Fifth Avenue parking lot, Chevy Chase, Maryland

A new flagstone walkway, patio and gardens make this new home in Chevy Chase, MD feel like home. www.allentucklandscaping.com #allentucklandscaping #chevychase #landscaping

Kensington, MD

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With pumpkin ravioli in sage butter, at La Ferme

Chevy Chase, MD

Fred Blum Sr.

A collection of Mr. Potato Heads, Star Wars theme here.

Chevy Chase, DC

hanging out at the gym

Independent local businesses, no matter how long they've flourished, are an endangered species. Whole Foods is on the march.

This is a slightly revised version of an image that was done for Photography Critique Assignment. The objective was to document something that is vanishing from our world. No California condors in my neck of the woods, so I took what I could get.

The Netherland-America Foundation holds its' gala awards dinner celebrating Dutch - American heritage at the Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington, VA on Friday, may 11, 2012 (James R. Brantley)

Chevy Chase, DC

This is a view of the Georgetown Branch Trail along the Rock Creek Trestle headed for Silver Spring, Maryland.

Rock Creek Forest Elementary School kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month with Latin dance music as the students enter the building. Lavina Carillo portrait for Hispanic Heritage Month.