This seems to work for this week’s challenge (and it’s from our trip too!) “Take a picture of yourself or someone else as a shadow, a reflection, or a lesser part of a scene, making the background, or . . . the foreground, the center of attention.”
She caught my eye from five rooms away . . .
James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1862, oil on canvas – National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Wonderful vacation and tons of photos . . .
I’ll be doing a lot of processing this weekend and will share. And I will try to catch up with all of you as well!
Morning coffee at the Hotel Lombardy, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday was a full day. We traipsed all over the National Mall, but our day started at Arlington National Cemetery. The sky was overcast with an occasional sprinkle.
Nothing prepares you for the rows upon rows of headstones.
Civil War Tomb of the Unknowns
We witnessed the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
It really is a beautiful and peaceful place.
But sad.
After walking through McClellan Gate we turned to head back to the visitor center
. . . but stopped short when we heard the slow mournful beat of a drum.
An officer’s burial.
A final salute.
Thank you to Bill Jones, Jr. for an excellent recommendation. I walked into the restaurant and knew immediately it was my kind of place. From the sofa seating area, to the blackboard menu, to my favorite Langston Hughes poem silk-screened on the back of servers’ shirts, to the delicious tofu scramble, to the cozy bookstore (where I purchased my breakfast read, the Utne Reader, and after breakfast snagged a copy of Alice Walker’s The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers), Busboys and Poets was all that, and then some.
iPhone shot on the way in . . .
Another iPhone shot – of the kitchen and pass-bar.
“Real” camera photos below . . .
Most of the wait staff at the pass-bar below the chalkboard.
Mark, our waiter.
Back to the hotel via the Metro – Green Line to Gallery Place, transfer to the Red Line to Metro Center.
Vietnam Memorial, Washington, D.C.
I should be in bed . . .
I have to get up in four hours to catch a flight that leaves at 7am.
We’re off to Washington, D.C.
Sweetie and I will be in D.C. next week Tuesday (night) through Sunday afternoon and need some advice on good places to eat. Reasonable prices and reasonably close to the Metro. Vegetarian friendly (for me) is a plus. We want to eat at local establishments – no chains.
Then we head to New York City on Sunday night and will be there three days. I’ve already gotten reservations for Monday night, but any recommendations for good places for breakfast / lunch / dinner would be welcome. We are staying in Tribeca, if that helps, but will be seeing the usual sights roughly based on Days 1, 2 and 3 of this plan.
Thanking you in advance!
Carissa Snedeker Photography 