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D.C.’s private waterfront land —
D.C.’s private waterfront land —
Along the Potomac
Point Prim Lighthouse
Slash Run: How a DC stream became a sewer, and then a secret
Putting a name to Blagden Run
In a stream valley
Visiting Bodkin Island before it slips under the waves
Hillen Terminal, Baltimore, Maryland
Recent
New map: Meanders of the Little Patuxent River
New map: From Bay to Mountains
Agricultural Fairs, 2025
Tudor Place gardens
Halifax Public Gardens
Campground and dunes, Assateague National Seashore
Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens
Largest tides in the world
Sources for “The Wharf and the Municipal Fish Market: The District Turns Back to the Water”
Adams Morgan Demographic Data
Archive
Buttermilk biscuits with cheddar and parsley
LIDAR point cloud studies
Typeface suggestions
Winding down at the Frederick Douglass Bridge
Fall on the Rhode River
Agricultural Fairs, 2024
New map: City of streams, city of pipes
Study: Complementary colors in OKLCH
Letter to members of ANC 1C about the Columbia Road project
1,000 feet from the ridgeline
Slash Run and Brown’s Run
A LIDAR-based shaded relief map of D.C.
Blackwater in high winds
Agricultural Fairs, 2023
The Census, checkboxes, and multiracial identity
Wild rice at Jug Bay
Hillshading/color study II, Mt. Greylock
Hillshading/color study I, Mt. Greylock
Bivariate choropleth study, poverty and inequality in Maryland
Tred Avon
Some interesting words, June 2021
Elk Neck
Along the Patapsco at Ilchester
Patuxent River State Park
The Baltimore rail network
Some interesting words, May 2020
Franklin Point
Frederick, Maryland
Marshes at Jug Bay
A Pigeon’s Friend
Baltimore harbor and tributaries
A modeshare snapshot of 17th St. NW
CSO #043, Rock Creek, D.C.
Rock Creek in the snow, D.C.
Eckington, D.C.
Imagining a safer 18th St. NW
Some interesting words, fall 2016
DC and Maryland Railroad Lines
A plank of wood; a slab of stone
Northwest Branch
The Brewer’s Archipelago and Distillery Islands, 2015
More D.C. streams in 1859
Rock Creek Trails
DC–Baltimore Railroads and Terrain
Vanderbilt Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Color
NYC Subway Elevated Structures
Broad Channel, Queens, N.Y.
Class Ideas
Evergreen
Drought-shaming
Résistant du mois d’Août
Retractile bridge
Spartina
Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur
Pumpjack
Schrödinger's carrot
Overhire
Ceeb u jeen
K-20
Womp womp
Six minute rule
Brown goods
Snowfalling
Beg Button
Etaoin Shrdlu
Bus Number
Anacostia River at Bladensburg, Md.
Blue
Some interesting words, spring 2014
The Brewer's Archipelago and Distillery Islands
More words I like
Free in Baltimore
Free!
Swampoodle is back on Google Maps
SE/SW Waterfront
Tradecraft and countersurveillance references
DC streams in 1859, plotted on a modern map
Really big pipes
Lost Watercourses of D.C.
Higher education is more varied than we know
Gardens on a rainy Saturday
