The above map is pretty good, the best I could find anyway despite that it’s missing a few favorite spots such as the Hirshhorn and the Postal Museum.
Along the way, in Mount Vernon Triangle, this tells all about the mural “Zero Hunger“.
We lyfted ourselves to the Jefferson Memorial with the intention of visiting the monuments and walking *all* the way to the end of the Mall.
Soooo many kids everywhere.
Below, from Rick, we all were hot for Delila, complements of the National Park Service. Lill fed Delila her lunch apple and made a new best friend.
Across from Jefferson.
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FDR’s memorial especially touched me this time. Talk about quotable quotes: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” FDR January 20, 1937
Here are “six columns wrapped in bronze bas-reliefs depicting scenes from the New Deal. On a nearby wall are these same images on sheets of bronze. The idea is that the columns are the rollers of a printing press, while the wall is the paper. Notice that the images on the columns are sunken in—negatives—and those on the wall protrude from the metal—positives.” from npplan.com.
Next came MLK. We entered on the river side seeing the carving first but the design is for you to come through the split rock first and slowly come around to see the carving. The rock says: “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
You could spend a lot of time thinking about the quotes along the walls. I keep coming back to this one: “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968. Remember when we all thought that we would overcome?
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These names were added to the Korean War Memorial in 2022. This isn’t my picture, I instead went looking for a bench in the shade and ended up with a group of Vietnam Vets. I was standing under a tree when one of them came across the path to offer me his seat and a cookie. It was a welcome rest and a memorable 20 minutes.
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I didn’t attempt the Lincoln steps either, but here’s the view from the plaza.
The Washington Memorial is a dominant feature of the skyline, peeking its way into so many views.
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Below is the clock tower of the Old Post Office building that was a Trump hotel for a few years and in 2022 sold to the Waldorf Astoria group.
This article, written in February 2018, is great in talking about Robert Irwin’s piece “48 Shadow Planes” and it’s place in the space. At least the Waldorf Astoria made it “great again”. The picture on the right is from the top of the clock tower.
This is my last picture. Was this the day we went to the White House and I couldn’t bear it? I even forget how we got home!
That’s our place with the red door. The front garden was lovely and there was a table and patio seats out back.
It’s Jim’s birthday, tomorrow, but a friend from back in LA ordered these two cakes knowing there were seven people here, and goodness we ate on those cakes for days. Between the cakes, the grocery shopping, and all our porch food from the wayward delivery, we had plenty to eat.
