Still Life with Robin: Blooming Flowers, Booming Voices

 by Peggy Robin

Now that I have figured out how to create shared albums so that Listserv members can add their photos, I have just created two new photo albums.

The first one is for our photos of our bloomin' neighborhood -- but not just our neighborhood -- it's for anywhere you've been where you took photos of flowers you'd like to share with this group. Click on the album Spring Flowers -- and please don't take this title too literally: Feel free to upload any good flower photos you've taken, even they're of the bougainvillea you saw on your trip to Barbados in 2015.

The second album is for photos of people in our neighborhood, or from our neighborhood, gathering to exercise their first amendment right "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." That album is called "Rally for..... " I've kicked it off with some photos I took at today's Hands Off Our Democracy Rally at the Washington Monument, plus a few others I copied from social media posts and from friends. You can add your own photos of this event, or photos of the weekly Klingle Valley "Resistance" Bridge protests, or any other protests you've captured in digital images. We'll get more out of them if you will add a description of the date, place and purpose of the demonstration or rally you have uploaded.

Upload instructions: 

1. Go to the PHOTOS section of the CP Listserv.
   
2. Click on the album you would like to add your photos to - for example: Spring Flowers or Rally for.....
   
3. Look for the green +Add Photos button and click on it.
   
4. You will see an option to "drop and drag" or "browse," allowing you to choose how you would like to locate your photos on your computer and add them to the album. Pull up each photo you want to add to the album, write a description in the "description" box, and then click "Add."
   

If you just would like to see lots of good photos of the rally today, take a look at Washingtonian Magazine's gallery of images: https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/04/05/photos-check-out-these-signs-at-the-hands-off-protest-in-dc/

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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.