A picture is worth...

Day 3: I promptly got yelled at for taking this picture...and then tripped over the sound chord for the large MLK day celebration in the lobby on my way out of the exhibit, momentarily stopping the rally...but both were worth it to stand there in the darkness and contemplate the flag that flew high over Fort McHenry all night in the midst of fighting and inspired Francis Scott Key to write this poem from a boat in the harbor...

"Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall send. Between their loved home and the
war's desolation! Blessed with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land.
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must,
when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the
Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave. O'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave!"
(4th verse of the National Anthem)

Day 2: (Right) Federal Triangle...quite the elaborate entrance to something so mundane as the DC Metro.

Day 1: (Left) Wheeling Suspension Bridge, West Virginia. Built in 1846, it is the most significant remaining pre-Civil War bridge. Zooming North on highway 70 you would miss this piece of history all together if you neglected to glance to your right as your cross the great Ohio River.


They say a picture is worth 1000 words. I full heartedly agree. Sure, there is the flag raising at Iwo Jima, the burning twin towers, astronauts on the moon, but there are also high school proms, wedding pictures, or a simple walk through a park. Anyway, as I start my time in this nation's capitol, I've decided to share some of my pictures. One a day though. That's all. Every day for a year. I won't write a thousand words for each, I'll leave that to your imagination. The photography isn't great, in fact, in Days 1-5 I realize it seriously lacks, but they mean something and that's what matters.