Fall in Virginia

I haven't made it out to Skyline, but there are some beautiful colors close to home, too!

Everybody Loves Popcorn (thanks, Mom!)

Thanks Mom-- you made a lot of people happy! Here we are around our studio common table, digging in to the Fisher's tub.

sneaky design students

Some of the planted areas on the National Mall are fenced off for rejuvenation. My friend Chloe and I snuck under to get some photos of some amazing 100+ year old trees.

two silly photos

A group of my classmates and I went to Trenton, NJ to visit brownfield sites that we had been researching. We met with two people who work for the city on brownfield development, who were extremely helpful. The site I am looking at is an overgrown lot with a decaying warehouse. There is no sign that would reveal that it is actually an African-American cemetery that dates to the 1880s.

Overall we got the sense that Trenton really is a tough city. The amount of vacant, boarded up property and the number of brownfield sites is sobering. We started to think about how transformation can begin to happen when the problems are so complex and profound.

On a lighter note, here are a few silly photos from the trip:

We had a delicious meal at the Yardley Inn in charming Yardley, PA


And were very disappointed that DeLorenzo's, rumored to be Trenton's best tomato pie, was CLOSED!