I was amazed to see so many crows at the gardens (which I had never seen there before); they and the seagulls seem to have taken over now that the lake is being drained. There were also a few ducks and geese, and one cormorant. The heron is gone.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

The impossibility of buying a house on Capitol Hill, posted earlier: