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2/22/2022 computer science
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There is a computer science department at this VT campus in Falls Church, VA.

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Mural in Falls Church, VA

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Chainsaw art in a driveway in McLean, VA

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2/21/2022 biology
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Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941) was an African American biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the understanding of evolutionary and developmental biology.

He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth, taught at Howard University, worked at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received a PhD (the first awarded to an African American) from the University of Chicago.
In 1911, with three students, he founded the first Black fraternity at Howard University.
While researching in France, he was arrested and imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp when Germany invaded in 1940. With the help of family, we was rescued by the US State Department.
Since 2000, the Medical University of South Carolina has hosted the annual Ernest E. Just Symposium to encourage non-white students to pursue careers in biomedical sciences and health professions.

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Happy Socks

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2/20/2022 metrology
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Sticker on a gasoline pump.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) maintains a metrology laboratory that is the source of traceability to national weights and measurement standards.

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2/19/2022 paleontology
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(found in someone’s yard)

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2/18/2022 war memorial
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Memorial Grove at McLean High School honoring those who served in WWII, Korean, Vietnam and Gulf Wars.

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2/17/2022 steeple
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It’s a bird church.

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2/16/2022 historic house
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Pimmit Barn (McLean, VA), built in 1937, is “the last remaining twentieth-century dairy barn inside the Beltway.”

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2/15/2022 gazebo
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Gazebo in McLean (VA) Central Park

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2/14/2022 national park
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NATIONAL Memorial PARK (Falls Church, VA)

[My first choice was Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, but I didn’t want to deal with the traffic on the roads to get there.]

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The Citizens’ Bridge is the result of homegrown advocacy. Falls Church resident, Craig Day, was instrumental in getting it done. He began working on the project years before it was completed. Many problems occurred because of jurisdictions – the city of Falls Church was responsible for the sidewalk, Virginia Department of Transportation for Route 7 and Northern Virginia Regional Parks for the trail. Craig said he “wanted it to be called the ‘Citizens’ Bridge’ because it is a testament to small-town government.”
See Citizens’ Bridge Commemorates 25th Anniversary Reflecting on the Trial, Error & Acclaim of Homegrown Advocacy of the Falls Church News-Press on October 6, 2017.

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2/13/2022 hill fort
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Fort Taylor Park (Falls Church, VA)
To access this park, there are stairs to climb and a wood-chipped trail. This is the location of the first aerial reconnaissance flight in the United States. It occurred in 1861 by balloonist Thaddeuss Lowe.

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Snowflakes!

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