Tapestry

QUIET WATERS PARK, Off Hillsmere Drive, Annapolis.Exhibitions in the Restaurant Galleryand the Visitor's Center Gallery.Showing the culmination of the love of texture and color, the woven tapestries of Annapolitan Marjorie Margulies will be on display (through Sept. 3) in the park's Restaurant Gallery. The works of Ms. Margulies, a former New Yorker who taught art in that city's high schools for 22 years, are described by Aileen Thomas of the park's Fine Arts Committee as tapestries emerging on the loom "with no prior plan, with a painter's sense of color and an almost sculptural manipulation of the weft."

MOTHER'S DAY approaches and I'm thinking of the fine points of being a mother and the many ways they differ from fathers.There are some obvious differences, but there are also aesthetic differences which cannot be defined in tangible terms.You see, mothers possess many secrets.Mothers have always had their own personal universe where they harbor the joys and the disappointments. The little corners of their souls hold hundreds of private thoughts.Perhaps it's because mothers cradle the baby for nine months, nurture the baby and keep that unseen umbilical connection with the child -- the tie that binds.

The nation's capital city began a new era of hope and renewal this week as one of its own, Sharon Pratt Dixon, took the helm as mayor. In a moving inaugural, she spoke of a "new season of coming together. A season where the international city, the federal city, the many neighborhoods, the many constituents, become one."Her words struck deep chords within Washingtonians eager tmove beyond years of scandalously inefficient, unresponsive government unable to deal with drugs, crime, public education and racial polarization.