Karen Leonard Photography

14/02/2025

in the darkness that is february- especially february 2025 - the idea of lavishing those you love (partners, friends, family - ALL of them) with love, affection, flowers, plushies, all things red and pink and yummy - feels so very needed! Photo from inside in Georgetown — just an explosion of valentine-ness!! Heaven!!!

06/02/2025

This is the number for the Congressional switchboard. CALL!! It’s vital and impactful! TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL AND WHAT YOU THINK!

03/02/2025

FOR THOSE OF YOU LOOKING TO TURN YOUR ANGER INTO ACTION, here’s some advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. Re-posting from a friend of mine:

There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’re by far the most important things.

You should NOT be bothering with online petitions or emailing.

1) The best thing you can do to be heard and get your congressperson to pay attention is to have face-to-face time — if they have town halls, go to them. Go to their local offices. If you’re in DC, try to find a way to go to an event of theirs. Go to the “mobile offices” that their staff hold periodically (all these times are located on each congressperson’s website). When you go, ask questions. A lot of them. And push for answers. The louder and more vocal and present you can be at those the better.

2) But those in-person events don’t happen every day. So, the absolute most important thing that people should be doing every day is calling.

YOU SHOULD MAKE 6 CALLS A DAY:
2 each (DC office and your local office) to your 2 Senators & your 1 Representative.

24/11/2024

07/11/2024

amazing to me how many people chose the colosseum over true leadership. but bread and circus often wins over hard truths. i am mourning for america.

05/11/2024

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

05/11/2024

VOTE AS IF YOUR RIGHTS DEPEND IN IT BECAUSE…THEY DO. Not…going…back.

13/09/2024

Another delightful senior portrait session!

08/07/2024

apples on my morning walk.

22/06/2024

College tours with took us near Newport, RI, where I got to spend some summers as a small kid. I haven’t been back - certainly not in many decades. I wondered what it would feel like — would I remember it? of course it’s changed a great deal. but i walked the same beach we went to, and saw the “red tide” I remember so well…. Can’t say there were vivid flashbacks, but there is a sense of comfort and familiarity.

08/04/2024

Visited (Congressional Cemetery) this weekend on a gorgeous spring day. A complete surprise - a few famous “residents” (J. Edgar Hoover, Marion Barry, John Philip Souza), but actually a really inclusive array of ordinary people from the 1700s on. When we walked in, there was a volunteer at the gate house strumming a guitar as he waited to welcome visitors and their dogs, who are allowed in for a small fee. This may sound weird but the place felt really loved - volunteers offering information and help, hand painted murals in the bathrooms, lovingly-tended plots, a little library with “books for the living”, families and frolicking dogs and flowering trees. I have always liked wandering cemeteries, thinking about the lives of the people buried there, admiring the statuary and the loving words. This place left me feeling … joy, and sort of fullness… like just feeling the whole cycle of life and death and time and continuity.

22/02/2024

DMV friends - EPIC show opens tomorrow at The Madeira School! Come and live out your big hair band fantasies with these rockin’ performers!

10/02/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our beautiful brilliant funny kind Keira. You are my warm ray of sunshine each and every day. How did 17 come so fast!?!