Living it up tonight on Fat Tuesday with margaritas (I'll regret this tomorrow). Lent starts tomorrow with Ash Wednesday - giving up sweets and pasta and I'm going to try to do Stations of the Cross on Fridays at our church.
I'm in Alexandria (vs downtown/DC) but would think its probably the same there. This is basically consistent vs prior years when the first/South facing flowers bloomed. Also saw a few forsythias in bloom yesterday running errands around here.
Inside the Beltway is basically a tropical island
Made the same comment the other day to a friend of mine. Eerily similar to when Hitler claimed Sudentenland in the Munich Agreement then proceeded to invade the rest of Czech (and well, the rest is history).