We took a long weekend and spent two days wandering around the Washington DC Mall. Although it was cool, the weather was so lovely we spent almost all our time outside.

We so most of the major monuments, including the WWII Memorial and the MLK Jr Memorial, neither of which was on the Mall last time we visited.

The Washington Monument is visible from just about everywhere.

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Hard to believe how many flowers were blooming in early March.

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Lily: (CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH!)
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I’m going to be rather busy for the next several days, so I’m not sure I’m going to get to the scavenger hunt this week.

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This week, I made butterscotch pudding. Except, I used bourbon instead of scotch, because bourbon is what I have in the house.

Butterscotch Pudding

1/4 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1 1/2 cups whole milk
2 tablespoons cornstarch
8 egg yolks
pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon bourbon or scotch

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Last week’s, but still, yummy.

Panna Cotta
2 1/2 tablespoons gelatin (I’m going to use less next time)
1 cup whole milk
3 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean
1/8 teaspoon salt

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I’d feel bad about never having been to the WV Botanic Garden before, except it’s relatively new.

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Yesterday, we had a high of 58F. Today, we’re calling for snow. Not really snow of course, just flurries.

But on a more serious note, my first daffodil pictures last year were March 22. Everything is blooming crazy early this year.

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Yeah, I needed oreos. I know I haven’t made a new tasty Tuesday post in ages. But this is what you get.

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As if I needed further proof this was an incredibly mild winter…

Last year’s crocus post was March 13th. And I discovered that not only did the rosemary survive the winter–so did the parsley.

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It was another gorgeous Sunday. Only saw one other person with a camera, however.

While looking for items for the scavenger hunt, we came across a couple of these:

Yeah. Maybe repainting signs doesn’t work as well as they thought it would.
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Found my items on our walk around town today.

Ten turned out to be more difficult than I had expected.

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This is the scenery for part of the walk I made to and from school:

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This is gonna be in a couple parts, because 1) I took a lot of pictures and 2) I have a lot of memories.

As I mentioned previously, every school I attended in Morgantown is gone, at least as a school. The first school I went to, Second Ward, is now an apartment complex (I have three pictures of it in my Flickr set) but the school for which I have the fondest memories was Second Ward Annex. It opened in 1939 as the Second Ward Negro school, but after desegregation, shifted to an annex to the main school.

I went to second and third grade there, and walked there and back every day.

This is the first view of the school, if you’re walking down White from Wilson (which I did).

Here is the second flight of steps up to the school.
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