On the left, the tallest ship, Patriot II, was our vessel.
Thursday, 31 March 2016, a visitor from Minnesota and I signed on to the Cherry Blossom Cruise from National Ferry Corp. at the Washington Marina. The day was overcast and windy, but it was a pleasant diversion. The boat was about half-filled with passengers.
Author: Richard
I grew up in Philadelphia where I graduated from La Salle University in 1968, the "Year of Revolting Students." I had changed my major from Philosophy to German to, finally, English (special interest: 1870-1914).
Having made solemn monastic vows as a Benedictine monk at Saint John's Abbey, I earned in Iowa City a masters of arts degree in Library and Information Science, 1974. A few years later I served as an intern in Special Collections at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, 1979-80.
For almost five years I oversaw the microfilming of medieval manuscripts in Durham, UK, and several sites in Germany for the abbey's Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (www.hmml.org).
In August 2016 I completed seven years with the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Silver Spring, MD. I returned to the monastery in central Minnesota in a red 2007 Toyota Corolla from the abbey fleet.
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Sadly windy weather in DC has not been kind to the cherry blossoms. Falling temperatures remind us of winter.
Sadly windy weather in DC has not been kind to the cherry blossoms. Falling temperatures remind us of winter.