Posted tagged ‘Christmas’

Community Holiday Lights Constest — Who’s In?

November 25, 2011

Decorations at 608 Rock Creek Church Road from last year

Here’s something fun to kick off the Yuletide season.

The Park View, Petworth, and Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) communities are in the early stages of organizing a holiday lights competition. Everyone involved thus far thinks this is a good opportunity to have the communities get to know each other better. It’s also an opportunity to have some good, old-fashioned competition.

As I mentioned, this event is still in the very early stages of organization with full details yet to be worked out. The general idea is to identify households that want to participate. Then, select a night that the AFRH seniors can view the decorations and vote on the decorations they like best.

As details are nailed down, I’ll post an update here. Of course, you can always send me an email as well.

So, who wants to participate?

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Area Holiday Decorations Beginning to Appear

December 15, 2010

As I’ve been walking around the neighborhood lately, I’ve started to see holiday decorations popping up here and there. I thought it would be nice to start sharing them, so below are two from northern Park Place.

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Above: 3674 Park Place (day and night), and below: 3648 Park Place (day and night)

3648 Park Place3674 Park Place

If you know of any great holiday decorations that you’d like to share, send them in to parkviewblog (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Merry Christmas Everyone

December 25, 2009

I thought I’d share one more decorated house for Christmas. This home is at 608 Rock Creek Church Road.

Celebrating the Season in 1927

December 24, 2009

On December 21, 1927, the Park View community included a seasonal play as part of the holiday entertainment. You can read more about it in the following article.

(From the Washington Post)

Decorations on the 600 Block of Princeton Place

December 23, 2009

I thought this home on Princeton Place had some attractive decorations.

Highlights from Santa’s Workshop

December 21, 2009

You may remember that the Park View Recreation Center played host for the DC Cares and local schools Santa’s Workshop this year. While a summary of this year’s program is still being compiled, early reports indicate that over 700 kids participated. One of the highlights was a visit by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Monday, December 14th. Mr. Bolden is a four-time shuttle astronaut and the first African-American to head NASA on a permanent basis.
NASA Administrator Bolden Volunteers with the DC Cares Program (200912140005HQ)(Image from the NASA Headquarter flickr pool. Additional photos of Mr. Bolden’s visit can be found here)

Decorations at 640 Rock Creek Church Road

December 18, 2009

I was particularly taken by the red interwoven with the greens on this house. While it wouldn’t show up in any photograph I could take, this house also has red wreaths in the second and third story windows.

It struck me as a really nice way to take a traditional holiday treatment and update it in a way that makes it completely contemporary.

Below is a closeup of the hand railing and a decorated Japanese maple in the front yard.

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Decorations at 605 Otis Place

December 17, 2009

House on Otis StreetThis home was one of the first to decorate for Christmas on Otis Place. Its been my observation that the neighborhood starts to really get decorated in the two weeks before Christmas.

3300 Block of Warder Getting into the Season

December 16, 2009

3300 Block of Warder StreetThese homes are on the west side of Warder Street just south of the intersection with Luray Place. The house below is just north of the intersection.
3400 Block of Warder Street

Decorations at 3648 Park Place

December 15, 2009

I thought the traditional decorations at 3648 Park Place were attractive, especially after sunset.


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