I believe another way to tell the difference is that plum blossoms are fragrant while the cherry blossoms have no smell.

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It's cool, I just get picky over these things.

You've definitely been seeing plum blossoms/japanese apricots blooming the past few weeks. They're on their way out now, and these Okames are just coming in. There can be a bit of overlap so sometimes its easy to mistake one for the other.

Honestly, quitting all this and joining the National Park Service is something I think about most weeks.

I quit my job as an attorney and became a small boat captain!

Since you aren’t listening to anyone about getting an Airbnb/hotel for the first week or two, please update the post after you get scammed.

-googles- OK, good for her.

-double checks- OK, she was also teaching high school.

Can I ask why they quit?

nah you go to the burbs and metro in. Listen to what the people are saying. We know our city.

Ina Garten worked for OMB and now she’s….Ina Garten

I stand corrected. Someone else identified the early blossoming trees as plum so I went with that. Mea culpa lol

The guys who started Pork Barrel BBQ were former hill staffers.

I met a guy once where he and his wife went off to join the 12 tribes cult. They are kind of like the Amish, and live out by Purcellville.

Need to check out HT, haven’t been. I don’t like Safeway

From my place Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are about 20-25 mins. Doable but not ideal walk with bags. I call it a weighted lunge wall uphill. I typically go to Streets Market and Yes! for something quick, but prefer to do weekly grocery shopping elsewhere (online at Giant which isn’t great, or make a trip to WF/TJ)

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Getting a job in a Smithsonian museum is like getting a job in academia. It’s absolutely impossible because you have to wait for someone to die for a position to be vacated.

Museum jobs like that are the crème de la crème for folks in that field, and between the reality that there are so few of them, and that people keep them for life once they have them, it’s unlikely your friend will ever get one because when they come available every person who ever graduated in Museum studies anywhere in the world is applying for it.

A former college roommate who had worked his entire career as a lawyer and had reached partner status at DCs second most famous law firm, quit when he was 44 and went to work for the National Park Service making about 1/12th what he made before. Spent a few years in DC doing National Mall management stuff and then moved to Yosemite where he now spends all day maintaining walking trails, doing tours etc living in a cabin.

He had a borderline breakdown from the stress as a lawyer but the dude couldn’t be happier now.

A former boss of mine went from the foreign service to starting an urban farm right here in DC

My thoughts exactly

Friend went to corporate law to traveling full time and leading yoga and mindfulness retreats all over the world

My old boss who was likely in her late 50s with 30+ years of journalism and communications/PR experience quit and became a nurse.

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And a Trader Joes about a 15 min walk from there on 14th and U