Weather in

Annapolis, MD

Temperature: 52F (11C)

Humidity: 93.6%

Conditions: light rain, mist

Wind: from the NE at 12 mph

FEATURES Get Outside! Favorite places to play around the bay. Mixed Greens A relaxed round of Chesapeake golf. Summer School Getting dirty at Edgewater, Md.'s Smithsonian environmental research center. That Other Crab Getting familiar with horseshoe crabs. Smart Growth An Annapolis container garden.

DEPARTMENTS Editor's Letter Detours What's happening on the Bay. Shorelines Chesapeake news, notes, and nonsense Hometowns Run away to Berlin, Md. Traveling Gourmet Mathilda's in Oxford, Md., and Matapeake in Stevensville, Md. Andrew's Kitchen Soft-shell crab recipes. Tidewater Treasures War correspondent and Dorchester County resident, Nate Thayer.