Washington DC Vacation / Abraham Lincoln / National Portrait Gallery
Table of contents for Travels Outside Virginia
- The Library of Congress / Our Trip To Washington DC
- Washington DC Capitol / Botanic Gardens
- Washington DC Trip/ Holocaust Museum
- Washington DC Vacation / Abraham Lincoln / National Portrait Gallery
- Washington DC Vacation/ Day 3
We are in DC this evening at the Regency Hyatt near the US Capitol and just returning from a lovely dinner with Kurt and my beloved partner Beth. We spent an interesting afternoon walking around the area and I have many photos I need to sort out at some point. Now we are back at the hotel and Beth has gone to investigate the pool. As I look out the window I see a fire station and a liquor store. I am very tired having walked miles it seems and had a great meal of blackened swordfish and various other things including three glasses of wine and Boston Cream Pie. Then we walked about ten blocks back to our hotel and here I am on the computer. Dancing With The Stars will be on later and Beth loves to watch it.
She is back. There are twenty kids in the pool. They should not be allowed in there after seven. The pool closes at nine. Oh well. On our walk back to the hotel we went by a homeless center and there was a line of people outside waiting to get inside. Mostly women and some of them were obviously having problems as they were talking to themselves or crying.
My mood of complete happiness was muted in this moment. There are two different worlds living side by side on this earth.
And now I must rest.
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Photo taken by Mathew Brady of Abraham Lincoln a few weeks before his death. National Portrait Gallery.
Bringing separate worlds together. We will always love you Abe.
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I just had to stop by and say hi to a fellow Virginian, originally from Alexandria, and just moved from Dumfries, I miss it a lot.
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I have book of Matthew Brady images David, he is probably my favorite photographer, even though his work is mostly made up of tragedy.
Still some of the most powerful images ever made !!
Thanks for sharing your vacation with us !
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