Took advantage of the gorgeous weather yesterday with a short mid-day walk to what is possibly my favorite pandemic discovery in Baltimore, Druid Hill Park’s Zen Garden.

Living in Baltimore means a lot more heat. But worse than that, it means not having Del’s on every corner to make each walk in that heat a bit more bearable.

Bawlmer

Feels like the most important thing Baltimore City can do is really crank on vaccinations of the ≥ 65 years old population. I can’t believe we’re only at 67.1%. More startling than the 50.2% of ≥ 18.

All three fields at Roosevelt Park have Little League games going right now. Baltimore is healing.

I was so proud when I heard that Baltimore would be producing a huge amount of COVID-19 vaccines, but this is a horrible, horrible outcome. Bad for the world, and horrific for Baltimore.

Storm is coming.

Tomorrow is our first day of Thirdly, where our team used to get together in Baltimore and celebrate the third gone by and prepare for the next one. It just is not the same now that we do it virtually. I miss my friends.

COVID Seder

I cannot tell you how excited I am that Francine has gone from dropping leaves to this.

I don’t think I’ve experienced any local media as disingenuous and entangled with a particular administration as “Project Baltimore” from my local Sinclair Syndicate.

Snowy evening walks in Baltimore.

I miss having real snow now that I’m in Baltimore. The last big storm to hit here, and it was a bad one, was the year before I moved here. Even in the middle of quarantine, a big snow has a different way of shutting things down that feels special. I’d love a big one this year.

Check out this crazy sky I captured (no edits) on my iPhone 12 Pro.

IKEA pegboard installed. Level and square, which was significantly harder than I thought it’d be.

More office shots soon. Hopefully will be fully cozied by end of year.

This morning I sat a the local coffee shop and ate this expensive toast. It was delicious. But it was also so normal and pleasant.

Today’s Hike

Today’s Lunch

And some updates on our Lettuce Grow

My office is coming together.

A mostly disappointing “hike” on the Gwynns Falls Trail

Larry Hogan’s cancellation of the Red Line is unforgiveable. It’s one of a string of decisions designed to harm Baltimore City and support the Maryland narrative that Baltimore is a drag on the state, rather than its vital core.

The HEROES Act cuts off funding for public transit systems where the metro area has less than 3 million people.

1. This is a bad measure.
2. How are we still writing policies with hard cutoffs rather than gradual reductions?

I have been disappointed that Baltimore seemed to be working very slowly on actually taking action on Complete Streets. But this Greater Greater Washington article on Baltimore’s new Complete Streets Manual gives me hope that the work is both good and comprehensive. Now do it!