November 2016
DC. Oh, how I love thee.
Time flies when you are having fun, I guess? I cant believe this trip was nearly 15 months ago, when it seems like just yesterday. I was lucky enough to be able to take a trip to DC for a grants training workshop for work. I visited during November 2016 and thats when I fell in love with this town, real hard.
The buildings were not overly tall, making the town feel like a town, instead of the big city. Each city block was an interconnected web of homes where the sides of each town home touched their neighbors, the only detail indicating a change in home owner was the difference between the homes exterior (oddly enough were usually vastly different from the next). It seemed like the long skinny homes stared back at me from my walks through town, giving me discerning looks as if they knew I was the outsider peering into their windows. For a brief moment I felt like I stepped back in time, I awaited the sound of a horse trotting down the brick land but was only met with the sound of a Subaru. The sidewalks were lumpy from original bricks being laid on ground that had moved under their weight, with grass growing between the bricks where the sunlight touched the soil. And due to the weather in November the leaves had started to change to their fall suits, and fall to the ground. Walking on crunchy leaves make me happy, and I frolicked through town aiming my feet towards the large piles of fallen foliage.
The past has made this place a special place, and this place makes history every day. Seeing the National Mall, the White House, the Treasury, and all other historical markers within this city make me want to become a historian and move here to share our past with the people who hold our future.
Why is no one looking outside when we take off and land? I feel it should be a rule. The world looks perfect, like lego-land, from above.
The Pentagon, a vast structure. This photo doesnt clearly represent the size of this edifice, its incredibly massive.
Mr. Lincoln. You were my favorite.
Testing out some long exposures!
These photos dont do the Washington Memorial justice. This is an incredible sight.
The White House. Too legit.
