June 30 Picture

June 30
The Georgetown – C & O Canal
Ride a canal boat ride along the C & O Canal in the Georgetown pulled by mules!

“If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.”
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June 29 Picture

June 29
Statue of Gen. Nathanael Greene
Stanton Park, Capitol Hill

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
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June 28 Picture

June 28
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
Background view of the National Museum – Judiciary Square

“The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.” – WJS ‘97
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June 27 Picture

June 27
Southwest (SW) Waterfront, Washington, D.C.
Also called Near Southwest, is between I-395 and Fort Lesley J. McNair, one of the country's oldest army posts, home to several Washington DC marinas, including the Washington Marina, The Capitol Yacht Club, the Gangplank Marina, and the James Creek Marina.

“We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.”
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June 26 Picture

June 26
Casino Royale docked @ The Awakening statue – National Harbor, MD
“Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.”
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June 25 Picture

June 25
“Feeling down? Saddle up.”
Charles Town Races, West Virginia
Charles Town Races & Slots is a world-class entertainment venue featuring over 5,000 slot machines, live entertainment, a wide range of food and beverage choices, and live and simulcast horse racing.
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June 24 Picture

June 24
United States Navy Memorial
On Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 7th Street Northwest and 9th Street Northwest in Washington, D.C., honors those who have served or are currently serving in the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and the Merchant Marine.

“War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.”
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June 23 Picture

June 23
Nymph & Satyr – National Gallery of Art, D.C.
~Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality~
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June 22 Picture

June 22
Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel @
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
“… Invites people from across the country and beyond into the saving moment of faith, hope & charity…”

**Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.**
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June 21 Picture

June 21
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
“… a prominent Latin Rite Catholic basilica located in Washington, D.C., honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the Patroness of the United States. It is the largest Catholic church in the United States, the eighth largest religious structure in the world, and the tallest building in Washington, D.C. An estimated one million pilgrims from around the country and the world visit the basilica each year. The basilica is located on Michigan Avenue in the northeast quadrant of Washington, on land donated by The Catholic University of America”
“I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.”
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June 20 Picture

June 20
Watergate – DC Police Call Box
“Police and fire call boxes were installed throughout the capital starting in the 1860s. They began to become obsolete with the introduction of the 911 emergency call system in the 1970s, and the working electronic components were all removed by 1995. Yet the call boxes remained, too large and heavy to remove yet subject to deterioration from weather and vandalism.
The Art on Call initiative began in 2000 when the city surveyed and identified call boxes for refurbishment. More than 1,100 abandoned boxes have been found to date. The District Department of Transportation stripped, primed, and prepared about 700 boxes in 2002 and 2003.”
(http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/things-do-see/trails-tours/art-call)
Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you."
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June 19 Picture

June 19
Fountains in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
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June 18 Picture

June 18
“Don’t just do something, sit there” – Reflections by me
At the fountains b/w the National Gallery of Art East & West Buildings
Washington, DC
Two buildings comprise the museum: the West Building (1941) and the East Building (1978) linked by a spacious underground passage.
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June 17 Picture

June 17
“Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.”
Lincoln Theatre & Ben Ali Way (Ben’s Chili Bowl) on U St., D.C.
“Lincoln Theatre is a theater in Washington, D.C. located at 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl. The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway", served the city's African American community when segregation kept them out of other venues. The Lincoln Theatre included a movie house and ballroom, and hosted jazz and big band performers such as Duke Ellington. The theater closed after the 1968 race-related riots. It was restored and reopened in 1994, and hosts a variety of performances and events.”
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June 16 Picture

June 16
THINKING – U.S. Capitol style, Washington, DC
“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think”
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June 15 Picture

June 15
White Flower…
This reminded me of a Georgia O’Keefe painting so I snapped this w/ her in mind.
“I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it” – Georgia O’Keefe
**Where flowers bloom so does hope**
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June 14 Picture

June 14
TELEPHONE: Downtown DC, GWU area
“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil, which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person, keep his distance.”
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June 13 Picture

June 13
Space Roller ride @ the Celebrate Fairfax! County Fair
“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? - it is the same the angels breathe”
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June 12 Picture

June 12
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, MD
The Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction & iconic landmark of the City of Baltimore, Maryland.
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”
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June 11 Picture

June 11
The National Archives building Constitution Ave façade.
The National Archives Building, known informally as Archives I, located north of the National Mall on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., opened as its original headquarters in 1935. It holds the original copies of the three main formative documents of the United States and its government: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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June 10 Picture

June 10
Chinatown Clock – Washington, DC
“Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.”
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June 9 Picture

June 9
Herndon CABOOSE – Town of Herndon
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad No. 504 – Mile 20.3 on the W&OD Trail
“When the railroad was converted into a hike-and-bike trail, Herndon capitalized on history and small-town feel (in a major metropolitan region) by converting its train station into a museum and visitors center, by relocating a Norfolk Southern Railway caboose to a nearby site, and by replacing the name of the Norfolk Southern on the caboose with that of the W&OD
Although the caboose does not resemble anything that ever traveled through Herndon, it remains an iconic part of the downtown area that both locals and tourists visit on a daily basis. The caboose and station offer to some a taste of the original town that has since faded into the suburban countryside.”
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June 8 Picture

June 8
Monument(al)
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”
The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 555 feet 5⅛ inches (169.294 m).
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June 7 Picture

June 7
Carousel on the Mall – Smithsonian Carousel
Outdoors on the National Mall, across Jefferson Dr from the Arts & Industries Building, carousel operates seasonally.
“In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out.
In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.”
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June 6 Picture

June 6
Chinatown's "Friendship Archway”
“In 1986, the city dedicated the Friendship Archway, a traditional Chinese gate designed by local architect Alfred H. Liu. The colorful, $1 million work of public art includes 7 roofs up to 60 feet high, 7000 tiles, and 272 painted dragons in the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Erected to celebrate friendship with Washington's sister city of Beijing, it was hoped the arch would reinforce the neighborhood's Chinese character. According to the plaque next to the arch, it is the largest such single-span archway in the world.”
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June 5 Picture

June 5 Picture a Day
The Organization of American States
House of the America’s – To the next 100 year’s.
"(OAS, or, as it is known in the three other official languages, OEA) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States.[1] Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas, although Honduras was suspended as a result of the June 28, 2009 coup d’état that expelled President Manuel Zelaya from office."
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June 4 Picture

June 4
National Museum of American History
Washington, DC
"More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations."
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June 3 Picture

June 3
“A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.”
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June 2 Picture

June 2
National Geographic Museum & Store
17th & M St, NW downtown Washington, DC
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”
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June 1 Picture

June 1
Arlington National Cemetery - SIGNS
“Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.”
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May 31 Picture

May 31
East Battery Street – Charleston, SC
Historic Charleston, South Carolina
Tranquil and quaint, and oozing with colorful charm, Southern civility, and a heady floral aroma, the Charleston Old and Historic District is the oldest historic district in the country. The nation’s first zoning ordinances protecting historic resources were passed here in 1931; the district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 & is a landmark promenade in Charleston, South Carolina famous for its stately antebellum homes.
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