Showing posts with label Silver Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silver Spring. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2011

In downtown Silver Spring.






I was driving north on Georgia Avenue -- in an especially unpretentious part of a very unpretentious city -- near the intersection of Georgia Ave and Bonifant St, when on the left my eye caught a small sign in a window: Meditation Museum. I drove back to look at the sign and then just a few yards away I came to this beautiful red building. I wish I had taken closer pictures of the hand-painted quotations on the wooden plaques, but the big curved doorway sign is carved -- or painted or both -- with a quotation from Mother Teresa: "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." The building houses something called the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, and I think I'll go back sometime and explore both the museum and the art center.

Friday, January 2, 2009

I've known these apartments for my entire life. So glad that they haven't been torn down.





"This historic Art Deco apartment complex was built in 1941, and is an important example of pre-World War II apartment design in Montgomery County." From: http://www.silverspringdowntown.com/go/montgomery-arms-apartments