A Cold, Rainy, Fall Morning in Shaw

It was a dark and stormy November morning... (The only fitting way to begin a new blog)

On the inaugural day for this blog, the morning was damp and chilly. Fall has arrived in Shaw over the last week and a half, the leaves are giving up their struggle. Last night a group of kids from Kipp went door to door around our neighborhood with brooms asking if they could rake leaves for some extra money. There is definitely good money in raking leaves this time of year. The city has parked their street sweeping equipment for the winter and they will be around vacuuming leaves on the curb in Shaw over the next week.

On my walk through Shaw today, I didn't remember it was Veterans Day until more than halfway through my walk. I did notice there was no traffic on the streets and no people on the sidewalks, it was a very quiet morning is Shaw today. I didn't even see anyone dropping off dogs at WagTime, which is always busy. By the way, does anyone know what is going on with the building to the left of WagTime?

It looks like DCmud.com has posted an interesting story regarding development in Mt. Vernon Triangle. Obviously K St. development has been growing to the east but it appears the city may grow the true downtown corridor with more DC sized skybrushers (kind of like a skyscraper but not tall enough to scrape the sky, just to brush it...) but for now, like a line up of dominoes, we're waiting for someone to tip the first project which will likely kick the whole show off...