Spent a little time on this beautiful October afternoon exploring the grounds of Catholic University, which I have driven by umpteen thousand times in the last 13 years. So pretty! Gonna let the pictures do the talking on this one.  Enjoy!  

Does virtual reality count as a New Place?  If so, I went to some pretty far out places today…. At one point I was wandering around in a basement with stone walls and floors, coils of yellow hoses…and no doors!   At another point I was in a large open space like an airplane hanger…

Today’s New Place is brought to us by the adage to “turn right” (TWICE in fact) off the main road. That got me off the much-frequented Connecticut Avenue and onto the little side street of Belt Rd—almost an alley really—in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of  D.C Back there I found a large brick Baptist church,…

For a moment there, I thought I might became more than a spectator at this historic Georgetown cemetery when an unleashed Doberman Pincher charged up behind me barking as I was photographing a tombstone. But the offending beast was ultimately leashed, and I was able to continue my rambles. Indeed, it’s just old tombstones and…

As this is the second labyrinth I have discovered for ONP, I suppose I can now claim that I have a “labyrinth series” going on!  Yes, I do like to wander around in circles! Today’s New Place was brought to me courtesy of my friend M, who drove me out here to this pretty little…

Crossing state lines today!  Woo-hoo!  We are going crazy here at ONP!! Actually, it’s kind of a pain to drive up to Bethesda on a Friday afternoon close to rush hour, but as I had a medical appointment (in a not-New Place), I sucked it up. This was my third time at this doctor’s office,…

It was 6:30 at night, twilight. I was walking Washington’s familiar downtown streets to the DC Improv (Feb 9th ONP ), feeling simultaneously blue and nervous. I hadn’t had a lot of creative energy to devote to finding a New Place today, as it all went toward prepping a monologue of Civil War puns for tonight’s…

After a three-hour meeting (in German) and a medical appointment today, neither of them in New Places, I was almost too tired to move by the time I got home around 4 p.m.. But I had to eat, I had to find a New Place, and I had to walk Lola. So I hatched a…

How seldom New Places come naturally into the course of my day. This is a disturbing truth I have realized in the course of this ONP year. Usually I have to make a deliberate attempt to go out and find them. Thus, it’s always a relief when my schedule naturally involves a visit to a…