This was a delightful space in between two art museums. It started out as open air space and then was enclosed. Rob uses it to study and eat lunch at. We met Laura's sister, Emily, here when we ate lunch ourselves.
This was from inside the Smithsonian American Art museum. My two able and willing subjects along with a great pillar outside.
The Smithsonian Castle.
From inside the Metro. If you take and really brighten this picture until Jeff and Robert are white- you can see the cement on the inside of the metro!
It's amazing how it appears that this is coming after you. So, night at the museum might be real!
Picture without the pillar. Sorry. Didn't intend to add this one.
We went to the National Cathedral the night before we came home. Laura took us while Robert went to a class. It took about a 15 minute bus ride each way to get there from Georgetown. I always thought it was right next to the White House.
Our very last day we borrowed Emily's car and went to see the National Cemetery where Laura's aunt is buried. Thus they have a driving pass and we didn't have to walk. Every hour they have a changing of the guard and Robert planned it so we were just in time!
The guards have to be a certain height and weight and it is all very precise.
We saw an Eastern Blue Jay and this Cardinal at the cemetery! The story is that the land for the National Cemetery belonged to General Robert E. Lee and when he left the Union to be with his family his land was confiscated and used as the National Cemetery. They still have his original house there and we toured through that as well.
If you double click on this you should see the funeral procession that we waited forever for it to pass by. The flag draped coffin is carried on a caisson. They had a band and many walking people and many, many, many cars after all that. It must have been a wonderful military tribute to some fallen soldier.
This is one of our last views of Washington DC from the cemetery.
For all the crooked and convoluted roads it seems you can often get a picture of the straight lines of the mall!
The everlasting fire at the grave site of John F. Kennedy.
We got to visit the Jefferson Memorial right before we headed to the airport. Robert and Laura were wonderful host and hostess and tour guides as well! We loved DC and can see how they will miss it when they leave some day!
The Jefferson Memorial is somewhat more open than the Lincoln Memorial and is very peaceful and majestic at the same time.
Blurry proof that the owl does land in our tree in our back yard from time to time! We believe it is a great horned owl from the pointed ears!
Christy turned 37 this year. We had everyone over the night before her birthday to see our pictures of our trip and share some of our stories.
This was about a week after we got home. Jeff took this picture when again we had a combination of low lying fog and clear skies up above! It is good to be home again, but we couldn't have had a better trip to Washington DC!
This was a delightful space in between two art museums. It started out as open air space and then was enclosed. Rob uses it to study and eat lunch at. We met Laura's sister, Emily, here when we ate lunch ourselves.
This was from inside the Smithsonian American Art museum. My two able and willing subjects along with a great pillar outside.
The Smithsonian Castle.
From inside the Metro. If you take and really brighten this picture until Jeff and Robert are white- you can see the cement on the inside of the metro!
It's amazing how it appears that this is coming after you. So, night at the museum might be real!
Picture without the pillar. Sorry. Didn't intend to add this one.
We went to the National Cathedral the night before we came home. Laura took us while Robert went to a class. It took about a 15 minute bus ride each way to get there from Georgetown. I always thought it was right next to the White House.
Our very last day we borrowed Emily's car and went to see the National Cemetery where Laura's aunt is buried. Thus they have a driving pass and we didn't have to walk. Every hour they have a changing of the guard and Robert planned it so we were just in time!
The guards have to be a certain height and weight and it is all very precise.
We saw an Eastern Blue Jay and this Cardinal at the cemetery! The story is that the land for the National Cemetery belonged to General Robert E. Lee and when he left the Union to be with his family his land was confiscated and used as the National Cemetery. They still have his original house there and we toured through that as well.
If you double click on this you should see the funeral procession that we waited forever for it to pass by. The flag draped coffin is carried on a caisson. They had a band and many walking people and many, many, many cars after all that. It must have been a wonderful military tribute to some fallen soldier.
This is one of our last views of Washington DC from the cemetery.
For all the crooked and convoluted roads it seems you can often get a picture of the straight lines of the mall!
The everlasting fire at the grave site of John F. Kennedy.
We got to visit the Jefferson Memorial right before we headed to the airport. Robert and Laura were wonderful host and hostess and tour guides as well! We loved DC and can see how they will miss it when they leave some day!
The Jefferson Memorial is somewhat more open than the Lincoln Memorial and is very peaceful and majestic at the same time. 
Blurry proof that the owl does land in our tree in our back yard from time to time! We believe it is a great horned owl from the pointed ears!
Christy turned 37 this year. We had everyone over the night before her birthday to see our pictures of our trip and share some of our stories.
This was about a week after we got home. Jeff took this picture when again we had a combination of low lying fog and clear skies up above! It is good to be home again, but we couldn't have had a better trip to Washington DC!
4 comments:
Thanks for posting all these, Mom. I've been downloading them so I have them on my computer, too.
Well, I'm glad someone appreciated all those pictures. It was a great trip. I have about twice that many pictures. Many of them are close duplicates, though. When you are here next you can see if there are any more that you would like.
Well, I'm glad someone appreciated all those pictures. It was a great trip. I have about twice that many pictures. Many of them are close duplicates, though. When you are here next you can see if there are any more that you would like.
This is one of my favorites of Mount Ranier from your house! Beautiful!
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