This weekend I went to see Skye in DC. Skye is my classmate from photography school and we decided to venture out to Georgetown for a beautiful day. I saw the famous staircase from the scary movie.... never watched it but I guess it was a popular spot. We didn't go onto campus but tooled around the canal and the dock.

There was a historic boat tour you could take down the canal that donkeys pulled you down. When we saw the boat they were bringing it up the canal into different water levels... All we saw was a top of a raft and guys all dressed up in historic wear.... couldn't figure out what was going on at first till the boat was raised up by the water level by shutting off the flow.... u can see it in the second pic. Then it came up to a height to see there were people in the boat. So that solved that but there were donkeys roped up in a pen and I kept saying whats up with the donkeys.... well we walked away and came back and sure enough we saw they pulled the boat in the wider part of the canal.... sorry boring story but u dont see it every day.

The water was so dirty! we saw huge carp and this cute turtle floating around.

This was down at the riverside.... there were tons of boaters on the nasty brown river that just pulled up to dock and eat at the restaurants. Interesting.

Then Skye took me to the famous market... kinda like the pike place market but not as cool. But I saw a lot of DC I havent seen before. The neighborhood the market is in is on Capitol Hill. It was an awesome place to walk around in. Tons of brownstones.... gorgeous yards... heres just a shot down one road.

More Spring Blooms

Spring Flowers

Last fall I planted a ton of tulips and alliumn? (can never remember what they are called) to specifically take pictures of this spring. I love both and probably will plant more next year. Then comes all the dahlias and sunflowers....

Update....

I was just playing some more with this pic... I like it better in color. It was 90 degrees today and I didn't go out in it. I caught a bug yesterday and was running a fever last night bad and my throat was swelling up. So today I recovered in the air conditioning. I sound like a man if you were to talk to me, I hope that goes away soon. So other than that, Ive been working hard in the yard, and will post pics as soon as Im done. It is beautiful over here with all the dogwoods in bloom now. I wish I felt better to take my usual weekend drives. But theres always next weekend.

Heaven!!!!!!

Road Trip! Sarah and I took a long long day into Virginia. A few "detours" highway system odd down there. Anyways. We found a few rusted old trucks and cars. I was in photography heaven. I played around in photoshop with some of them.

Dad was this the car you drove in college? I remember you saying something about 3 circles on the side.

Washington DC

Our last outing of the visit was DC. We took the subway downtown and started in Arlington. There was a bunch a walking and we were all worn out by the time we got back on the subway near the White House. Out of all things that is what seemed to excite my parents the most, even though we were looking at it from a distance under the WA monument. My dad was on the lookout for the presidents helicopter and he saw it once for a brief moment. This trip was during the Cherry Blossom Festival, so there was a lot of people there. But the blooming trees, cherry, apple, pear, and magnolia were so beautiful. I love driving around right now cuz all the trees are in bloom. I think my parents had a good time and were glad it was our last outing. Until next time.
JFK grave site

Lincoln Monument
Looking down reflection lake the the Washington Monument from the steps of the Lincoln Monument.

World War II Monument, each state represented my a pillar.

Gettysburg

My dad really wanted to go see Gettysburg. We ended up taking the long drive around the battlefields. Which I had never done before, so we saw both the Union & Confederate sides of the battle. My dad actually stopped to read some of the signs so I learned a bit more this trip.
This monument is where Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.These were two images of the Unions side. The trees were a grouping that they used to locate themselves.

This monument was erected by Pennsylvania for only the Union troops in I think 1908? Pretty amazing when you think about how long ago that was.

Now we were on the Confederate side looking across the battlefield where the union soldiers would be, this is were the Northern Virginia soldiers held their line. This was the final day of fighting the ended in a Unions victory. They say that about 25,000 bodies still lay beneath these fields.