Cliff Owen

Despite a couple hundred-thousand miles driven down rural roads and highways, I’ve yet to see a pivot irrigation system at work — you know them, those 1/4 mile long trellises that snake through a farmer’s fields. They sit quietly like those dinosaur skeletons on display at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum.

Well, Friday night they were alive in Sudlersville, Maryland and emitting a soft rain. Had it been a tad bit warmer, I just might have done a Gene Kelly dance through the field.

Trees, Manassas Battlefield, Manassas, Virginia

Michael Donley, secretary of the Air Force, pauses while speaking during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fisher House and meditation pavilion for the families of fallen soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, at Dover Air Force Base, Saturday, May 1, 2010.

photographed for the AP

Dennis Quaid waits to address the National Press Club luncheon.

photographed for the AP

Tabi Bonney, top, and Marti Brom, bottom, perform at the Wammies 2010 awards show in the State Theater, Falls Church, Virginia, Sunday February 28th.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner waits to testify before the Senate Budget Committee about President Obama’s 2011 budget.

photographed at a Congressional hearing for the AP

A Capitol Police officer stands guard in front of the Republican Whip’s office in the U.S. Capitol while Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass., is sworn in by Vice President Biden.