A Silver Spring Welcome

Welcome to Silver Spring, MD. These vaguely fountain like sculptures guard the various entrances to Silver Spring. This one is right on the DC border next to Jessup Blair Park. (photo taken by G. Edward Johnson on September 29, 2009).

Traffic and Lane control

Oh Traffic, we love you so. I've never really realized how many of the lane control red X's there are. I took this in the morning rush hour looking northbound on Georgia Avenue (MD-97) so the reversible lanes are going in the opposite direction. This little bit of Silver Spring, MD looks a bit more New Jersey than the rest of the area.

Some time ago FedexKinkos changed it's name to FedexOffice, dropping the Kinkos from its name. The signs on the stores have been slow to be updated though. On Wednesday I was driving past the one on East-West Highway near Colesville Rd and saw them taking the old sign down. On Thursday the new sign was up, a white and blue FedEx Office (or as the put it FedExOffice but I find that hard to read without the colors

Be careful about parking here

This small surface parking lot on Silver Spring Avenue in Silver Spring, MD has no fewer than four signs on the same post telling you about parking restrictions. I actually really like the older, rustier, embossed signs.