Cars travel over the top of the lift hill and begin their descent on the Intimidator 305 roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia.

Photographed: May 20, 2011

Street signs at the intersection of Fuller Road, Joplin Road, and Route 1 in southern Prince William County, Virginia.

Photographed: March 20, 2011

Station entrance pylon for Grosvenor-Strathmore station on the Washington Metro, in North Bethesda, Maryland.

Photographed: May 7, 2011

"Posted No Trespassing" sign in the window of an abandoned motel room on Afton Mountain, near Waynesboro, Virginia.

Photographed: May 19, 2011

Bags of frozen vegetables in a shopping cart at a Giant Food store in North Bethesda, Maryland.

Photographed: May 3, 2011

Notes: The original caption stated that this Giant store was in Rockville, Maryland. The caption shown has been modified to correctly list the store as being in North Bethesda, Maryland.

Space Shuttle Enterprise on public display at the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center.

Photographed: April 22, 2011

Notes: This photo is from my April 2011 trip to the Udvar-Hazy Center, discussed in this Journal entry.

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg speaks in Lafayette Park in Washington DC during an anti-war protest.

Photographed: March 19, 2011

A woman smiles for the camera while wearing a pink wig and silver eyelashes.

Photographed: April 2, 2011

A woman offers free vegan sandwiches from a wicker tray during an anti-war protest in Washington DC.

Photographed: March 19, 2011

Notes: For those wondering how the sandwich was, in the interest of keeping my hands clean at an event where there was no easy restroom access for hand washing, I didn't have one. But they certainly did look delicious, didn't they?

Street sign for the 1700 block of K Street NW in Washington DC, at the intersection with Connecticut Avenue NW.

Photographed: February 12, 2011

Notes: Ever wondered why some DC street signs have the District of Columbia flag on them and others don't? Turns out that they designate evacuation routes out of the city. Their function was replaced by the newer "EVACUATION ROUTE" signage also seen in the photo.

A bird designed to resemble an Arctic Tern is carried over the crowd at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, to draw attention to the need for protection of the Arctic Refuge.

Photographed: October 30, 2010

Notes: This photo is from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear set in Photography.

Snow covers a vacant lot in a neighborhood in Silver Spring, Maryland, after the first major snowstorm to hit the Washington DC region in 2011.

Photographed: January 27, 2011

Notes: This photo is related to the Journal entry about my commute from hell the previous evening. This was taken the morning after the storm itself had passed. This photo was taken from my apartment balcony. Due to the storm, the power was out in my apartment.

Two women look at photos that a person took of them during the 2011 Maryland Polar Bear Plunge.

Photographed: January 29, 2011

Anastasia Shestakova sings at the "Keep Winter Cold" polar bear plunge event, sponsored by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, at the National Harbor in Maryland.

Photographed: January 22, 2011

A group stands in the Chesapeake Bay at Sandy Point as part of the 2010 Maryland Polar Bear Plunge event.

Photographed: January 30, 2010

Notes: This image is part of the Maryland Polar Bear Plunge 2010 set in Photography.

Capital Bikeshare rack outside Eastern Market station in Washington DC.

Photographed: December 19, 2010

An Orange Line train arrives at Minnesota Avenue station in Northeast Washington DC.

Photographed: May 1, 2010

Ice on a balcony railing in Silver Spring, Maryland following two back-to-back snowstorms in February 2010.

Photographed: February 11, 2010

Notes: For those wondering, this is the balcony on my apartment. This photo goes with this Journal entry.

Two students relax on the Quad at James Madison University.

Photographed: April 5, 2010

A man touches a name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.

Photographed: October 2, 2010

Notes: This photo is from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial set in Photography.

Potomac Hall, a dormitory building on the east side of the James Madison University campus.

Photographed: April 5, 2010

Notes: I lived in Potomac Hall for three years while a student at JMU. This is also the fourth time that a photo of Potomac Hall has been used as the Photo Feature.

Two demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes masks troll the crowd with their "ANGRY SIGN" signs at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington DC.

Photographed: October 30, 2010

Hand covered in fake blood during a zombie walk in Boston, Massachusetts.

Photographed: May 29, 2010

Notes: This photo is from the Boston Megaraid set in Life and Times.

Amtrak station in downtown Staunton, Virginia.

Photographed: December 30, 2009

Reflection of the Washington Monument on the stone face of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.

Photographed: October 2, 2010

Notes: This photo is from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial set in Photography.

Anti-war protest proceeding down a road in Arlington, Virginia on the way to Crystal City.

Photographed: March 21, 2010

Notes: This photo is from the March on Crystal City photo set.

Giraffe at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois.

Photographed: July 21, 2010

Demonstrators shout and raise their fists during the March for America, advocating comprehensive immigration reform, in Washington DC.

Photographed: March 21, 2010

Notes: For more information about this demonstration, see Funk the Weekend in Life and Times. This was the immigration march, discussed in Parts 6-8.

Participants in an anti-war demonstration in Washington DC use their protest signs to provide shade before the march begins.

Photographed: March 20, 2010

Notes: For more information about this demonstration, see Funk the Weekend in Life and Times. This was the ANSWER march, discussed in Parts 4 and 5.

Fire alarm notification appliance at the Quincy Adams "T" station outside Boston, Massachusetts.

Photographed: May 30, 2010

Flower in a conservatory at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.

Photographed: July 22, 2010

A house on Wrightwood Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, best known as the television home of Carl and Harriette Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters.

Photographed: July 21, 2010

Notes: Please note that the house to the left of the Family Matters house did not exist at the time that the exterior shots for Family Matters were made.

A 2600-Series rail car brings up the rear of a Purple Line train to Linden at Davis station on the Chicago "L", in Evanston, Illinois.

Photographed: July 19, 2010

On-campus student mailboxes, James Madison University.

Photographed: April 5, 2010

Notes: The mailbox featured here is my old campus mailbox, JMU Box 2732. This photo feature ran for an unusually long time due to my forgetting to change the feature before leaving for a vacation, and then due to circumstances beyond my control upon my return.

Clouds over the oceanfront at Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Photographed: August 25, 2008

Downtown Toronto location of The Bay, former flagship store of the Robert Simpson Company.

Photographed: August 9, 1999

Notes: Today's Special fans will recognize this location as the place where Today's Special was filmed. I chose this as the photo feature after learning that G20 protesters in Toronto broke windows at the store. It was heartbreaking to see, quite honestly.

Brewer Fountain in Boston Common. The Massachusetts State House is visible in the distance.

Photographed: May 30, 2010

Abandoned Safeway grocery store in Wheaton, Maryland.

Photographed: December 27, 2009

Notes: For more photos from this set, see Abandoned Grocery Store in Photography.

A woman participates in a zombie march in Boston, Massachusetts.

Photographed: May 29, 2010

New Carrollton station, eastern terminus of the Washington Metro's Orange Line.

Photographed: May 1, 2010

Notes: The rail car at right in this photo is Alstom 6104.

The Plumb House, one of the oldest houses in Waynesboro, Virginia.

Photographed: November 29, 2009

Station entrance pylon, New Carrollton station, Washington Metro.

Photographed: May 1, 2010

Two clown heads in a water gun carnival game have tape over their mouths to indicate that they are out of order.

Photographed: January 30, 2010

Notes: For more photos from this set, see Maryland Polar Bear Plunge 2010 in Photography.

A man hands out flowers during a Funk Borders Bloc at a pro-immigration march in Washington DC.

Photographed: March 21, 2010

Shenandoah County "Certified Business Location" signage at the border with Rockingham County along northbound Interstate 81 in Virginia.

Photographed: April 6, 2010

A woman shouts during an anti-war protest in Washington DC.

Photographed: March 20, 2010

Railroad tracks on their approach to the Staunton train station in Staunton, Virginia.

Photographed: December 30, 2009

Sign in Stuarts Draft, Virginia after high winds caused a panel to fail.

Photographed: January 2, 2009

John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery.

Photographed: October 25, 2009

Cars covered in more than a foot of snow during the "Snowpocalypse" blizzard of December 2009.

Photographed: December 20, 2009