March 31 Picture

March 31
U.S. Coast Guard on the DC Waterfront
(keeping us safe)
"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
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March 30 Picture

March 30
The Freer Gallery of Art
Arts of the Indian Subcontinent & the Himalayas
"Divided into several sections, the Buddhist art charts the emergence of the Buddha image in India and its transmission throughout Asia and includes fine Buddhist images from Nepal, Tibet, Southeast Asia and China."
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March 29 Picture

March 29
"Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are."
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March 28 Picture

March 28
GLI ITALIANI
AL POPOLO AMERICANO
28*FEBRAIO*1956
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
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March 27 Picture

March 27
Monument(al) Cherry Blossoms
The blooming of the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. has come to symbolize the natural beauty of our nation's capital city. The famous trees, a gift from Japan in 1912, signal Washington’s rite of spring with an explosion of life and color that surrounds the Tidal Basin in a sea of pale pink and white blossoms. Thousands of city residents and visitors from across the nation and around the world come here to witness the spectacle, hoping that the trees will be at the peak of bloom for the Cherry Blossom Festival.
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March 26 Picture

March 26
"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn"
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March 25 Picture

March 25
**George Mason Memorial**
West Potomac Park, Washington, DC
~Born in 1725 George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and later attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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March 24 Picture

March 24
Slave Quarters - Sully Historic Site - 1794
"History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. "
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March 23 Picture

March 23
Monument(al) budding cherry blossoms - taken from Capitol Hill -
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"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world."
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March 22 Picture

March 22
A fortune cookie I agree with, need I say more...
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"What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it."
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March 21 Picture

March 21
"March for America":
(illegal immigration rally), Washington DC
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America"
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March 20 Picture

March 20
(My back yard) - Spring Fever
"And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."
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March 19 Picture

March 19
"Hazel Plain" (Manassas Battlefield Park)
The Benjamin Chinn House Site
"Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts."
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March 18 Picture

March 18
World War II Memorial (Atlantic side)
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome"
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March 17 Picture

March 17
Jefferson Memorial - Tidal Basin
"The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind." ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813
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March 16 Picture

March 16
Tidal Basin - Washington, DC
"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom."
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March 15 Picture

March 15
Smithsonian - American Art Museum
"Let me ask you something, what is not art?"
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March 14 Picture

March 14
Smithsonian - National Museum of the American Indian
Brian Jungen: "Strange Comfort"
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
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March 13 Picture

March 13
National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian
"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."
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March 12 Picture

March 12
**Old Barn - Fairfax County, VA**
Reminds me when I use to live on a farm
"People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around."
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March 11 Picture

March 11
**Thomas Circle, District of Columbia**
National City Christian Church and the George Henry Thomas Monument are two landmarks located on Thomas Circle.
"You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it."
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March 10 Picture

March 10
DC Call Box - Adams Morgan, Washington DC
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"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
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March 9 Picture

March 9
The Freer Gallery of Art
Visited today - inside - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, forms the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art - A-mazing!
The Freer contains art from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Muslim world, the ancient Near East, and ancient Egypt, as well as American art.
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
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March 8 Picture

March 8
(Interior) V.F.W. Memorial Building - Capitol Hill
"Honor the dead by helping the living"
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March 7 Picture

March 7
Mary Livingston Ripley Garden @ night
B/w the Arts & Industries Bldg & Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
"It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought."
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March 6 Picture

March 6
Henry House Monument, Manassas Battlefield Park
"Honoring the Dead"
Union Hill soldiers built Henry House Monument to commemorate those died @ First Bull Run (Manassas).
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March 5 Picture

March 5
There stands Jackson Like A Stone Wall
Stone Wall Jackson - Manassas Battlefield Park
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime"
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March 4 Picture

March 4
Manassas National Battlefield Park
"All the arms we need are for hugging"
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March 3 Picture

March 3
Taken on March 3rd but posted late - sorry folks :(
Downtown DC outside art on L & Vermont
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March 2 Picture

March 2
The Netherlands Carillon - Arlington, VA
"So many voices in our troubled world are still unheard."

"From the People of the Netherlands to the People of the United States."

This simple dedication on the Netherlands Carillon expresses the gratitude of the Dutch people for American aid received during and after World War II. The carillon itself symbolizes the friendship between the people of the Netherlands and those of the United States... a friendship characterized by a common allegiance to the principles of freedom, justice, and democracy which has weathered temporary differences. To that friendship and those principles, the Netherlands Carillon is dedicated.
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March 1 Picture

March 1
United States Park Police & their fabulous partners!
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The history of the Park Police predates both the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service. Created in 1791 by our first president, George Washington, the U. S. Park Police have been on duty in our Federal parks for more than 200 years. The United States Park Police is a unit of the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, with jurisdiction in all National Park Service areas and certain other Federal and State lands. The United States Park Police provide law enforcement services to designated areas within the National Park Service (primarily the Washington, D.C., New York City and San Francisco, California metropolitan areas)
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