Perfect weather all weekend long and it got started on a high note - taking the boat out on the Bay and up to Annapolis with Carole and Andie. I took advantage of having such hot "hood ornaments" and we cruised down Ego Alley, as the Annapolis dock area is called. In the 6 mph, no wake zone an older guy skippering a 45 motor yacht way too fast smashed into the dock with a sickening, though well deserved, cracking sound. Lunch at Coconut Joe's followed.
Lauren had ordered a bookcase online and mistakenly had it delivered to our house. I took it down to her new place in Arlington and assembled it for her, then I jumped on the Washington and Old Dominion Rail Trail for a 43 mile ride from Dunn Loring to Ashburn and back. Lots happening in the area - the Herndon Festival, two breweries on the trail jam packed, and a swing band playing in a park next to the trail in Vienna.
On Sunday morning Carl and I redid the 5.8 mile Salamander Rock hike in the Frederick Watershed, to see if the "tunnel of mountain laurel" was in bloom. Even at altitude, this is kind of late in the year for peak mountain laurel time - but with the wacky weather we were actually probably a week too early. Saw many mountain bikers and two hound dogs wearing radio collars out on their own - I think someone was tracking them.
Even though I told him mountain laurels have no fragrance, Carl decided to stop and smell the roses rhododendrons.
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