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Article: Woodsy Worlds Away From the City; Homes' Big Windows Bring the Outside In
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- The Washington Post
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- March 25, 2006
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Six months ago, Eneida Somarriba rediscovered the moon when her
family moved to Carderock Springs.
When she was growing up in Costa Rica, she said, "I lived with the
moon." And since she came to the United States, she has missed it.
"Why didn't we have a moon in Gaithersburg?" she jokingly asked
her husband, Jorge.
Carderock Springs lacks the light pollution that plagues more
populated, commercial areas. "It's so dark here," Somarriba said of
her Montgomery County community, tucked between Congressional Country
Club and Cabin John Regional Park, just outside the Capital Beltway.
On moonless winter nights, a parade of flashlight beams heralds
the end of the workday as residents walk home from ...