DC
I drove down to Baltimore where I met up with Carl, Jess, Seth (visiting from Michigan Tech) and Betsy (visiting from UNC-Chapel Hill), for a mini Gustie reunion in Washington, DC, after taking in the premiere of the new Harry Potter movie the night before
November 19, 2005

001-Seth Seth, on the Metro ride in from Silver Spring 002-JessBetsy Jess & Betsy 003-WashMonument Washington Monument 004-Capitol Capitol, with some protest going on nearby on The Mall 005-AmerIndianSmithsonian Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian 006-CapitolDome Capitol dome 007-CapitolDome Capitol dome 008-Capitol The US Capitol, as viewed from the American Indian Museum 009-IndianMuseum The Indian Museum is a very interesting-looking building, with no corners outside 010-NavajoDance A Navajo dance going on in the lobby 011-JaredSethJessBetsyCarl Me, Seth, Jess, Betsy & Carl having a blast in Washington, DC 012-NationalGallery National Gallery of Art 013-Sculptures Sculptures in the NGA 014-StudyOfCloudsOverRomanCampagna-DeValenciennes Of course I'm drawn to paintings that feature clouds 015-ViewFromVaekeroNearChristiana-Dahl 016-FogOffMountDesert-Church 017-TheApproachingStorm-Troyon 018-PalazzoDeMula-Venice-Monet 019-TheHousesOfParliament-Sunset-Monet 020-Courtyard Courtyard inside the National Gallery of Art 021-SunlightAndShadow-TheNewburyMarshes-Heade 022-CivilWarSculpture Civil War sculpture 023-LakeLucerne-Bierstadt 024-Atrium Atrium of the NGA 025-Dome Dome inside the NGA 026-Atrium Atrium 027-USNavyMemorial US Navy Memorial 028-WashingtonMonument Washington Monument 029-WashMon Washington Monument, with a gorgeous sky full of cirrus 030-WashMon Washington Monument 031-MonumentBase Base of the monument 032-MonumentTop Top of the monument 033-Carl Carl 034-Betsy Betsy & I were casting some long shadows 035-Washington Washington, DC 036-Seth Seth trying to get a good shot of the Washington Monument 037-BetsyJessSeth Betsy, Jess & Seth 038-FlagMonument American flag and the Washington Monument 039-FlagMonument Flag and the monument 040-FlagRing Ring of flags around the Washington Monument 041-SethBetsyJess Seth, Betsy & Jess 042-LincolnMemorial World War II Memorial, Reflecting Pool, and the Lincoln Memorial 043-Carl-TakingPhoto Carl taking a picture of the Washington Monument 044-WashingtonMonument Washington Monument 045-Jared-WashMon Who knew I was so tall? 046-Carl-SelfPortrait Carl with one of his patented self-portraits 047-Carl-SelfPortrait Carl taking another one 048-Carl-SelfPortrait Carl with yet another self-portrait 049-WashMon Washington Monument 050-WashMon Washington Monument ... yes, I took a lot of pictures of this 051-Jared-WashMon Tsk tsk Carl, not quite level... 052-WWIIMemorial World War II Memorial, one of my three favorite memorials/monuments in DC 053-WW2 WW2 054-WW2Memorial WW2 Memorial 055-WW2Memorial WWII Memorial 056-Fountains Fountains 057-Fountain Fountain at the World War II Memorial 058-WW2 World War II Memorial 059-WW2 WWII 060-WW2-WashMon WWII Memorial & Washington Monument 061-Pacific Pacific tower 062-WWIIMemorial WWII Memorial 063-WorldWarIIMemorial World War II Memorial 064-WashingtonMonument Washington Monument 065-WWII World War II 066-ReflectingPool-Lincoln Gazing at the Lincoln Memorial across the Reflecting Pool 067-LincolnMemorial Lincoln Memorial 068-ReflectingPool Reflecting Pool 069-WWII-Capitol-WashMon World War II Memorial, Washington Monument and the Capitol dome 070-Sunset-LincolnMem Sunset at the Lincoln Memorial 071-ContrailSunset Contrail sunset 072-LincolnMemorial Lincoln Memorial 073-Capitol-WashMon The Capitol and the Wash. Monument 074-ReflectingPool-WashMon Reflecting Pool 075-WashMon Washington Monument 076-WashMon-ReflectingPool Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool ... this was the second time I'd visited DC, and the first time I was there the Reflecting Pool was empty, so it was nice to see water in it for a change 077-Lincoln-Scaffolding All sorts of scaffolding around the Lincoln monument 078-WashMon-Sunset Washington Monument as the sun sinks toward the horizon 079-WashMon Washington, DC from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial 080-WashMon-Sunset A pretty sunset developing 081-SethJaredCarl Seth, me and Carl 082-SethJess Seth & Jess 083-Jared-WashMon I had tons of fun wandering around DC with my fellow Gusties, though in the evening it was starting to get a bit chilly for me, since I didn't bring a jacket along 084-Contrails Contrails 085-LincolnMem-Sunset Lincoln Museum at sunset 086-WashMon-Dusk Washington Monument at dusk 087-Betsy-WashMon Betsy 088-WashMon-Dusk Washington Monument with a pretty sky 089-WashMon-Dusk Washington Monument at dusk 090-BetsyJessSeth Betsy, Jess & Seth 091-LincolnMemorial Lincoln Memorial 092-WashMon We decided to walk a bit more, over to the Jefferson Memorial, to catch that all lit up 093-WWIIMemorial WWII Memorial again 094-WWIIMemorial-Twilight WWII Memorial at twilight 095-WWIIMemorial WWII Memorial 096-JeffersonMemorial Jefferson Memorial 097-WashingtonMonument-TidalPool Washington Monument reflecting in the Tidal Pool 098-WashingtonMonument Washington Monument 099-JeffersonMemorial Jefferson Memorial 100-Jefferson Thomas Jefferson