Tag: McMansion

  • 2014 Year in Review : Blue Moon Rising in Western Maryland

    Before the new year gets off to a roaring start,  I thought it would be fun to look back on some of the most viewed and most “liked” posts on this blog. I may also throw in a couple of my personal favorites that may have not received that much attention their first time out. For…

  • Sunflowers in Suburbia

    Fifty-five years ago the Washington D.C. suburb of Fairfax County as well as neighboring Prince William County were mostly farmland. According to Wikipedia, even as recently as the 1950s, Tysons Corner Area of Fairax was “a quiet rural intersection flanked by a few small stores.” Nowadays in Northern Virginia, where cows are outnumbered exponentially by…