A Sunday in Spring on Capitol Hill

March 20, 2011: We started with the cherries at Congressional Cemetery:

Along Pennsylvania Avenue SE















Harry Lauder's Walking Stick at the Library of Congress:
















A weeping cherry:
Star magnolia (left) and saucer magnolia:

The Thomas Jefferson Building is famous for its ethnographic heads. Here's the Semite, the Arab and the Turk:

The Closest Full Moon

George Washington Parkway, VA, March 19, 2011: Tonight's full moon rose the closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit. Our vantage point was a scenic view of Fort Washington in Maryland.

The Almost Full Moon

Spring Comes to A Street SE

Frida and Maggie:











Spock and Fred:

Capitol View

March 13, 2011: Homestead Gardens is on Central Avenue, which westbound becomes East Capitol Street in the District of Columbia. As you come over the hills, you see this: