To start off...

They say a picture is worth 1000 words.

This blog started as my personal goal to post a picture each day of my first year living in Washington, D.C. 4 years later, the objective has changed and my posts are much less frequent. I write when I am inspired by an event or experience and do my best to capture feeling and intrigue with the photographs I take. My hope is that somewhere between the pictures and words, you have a glimpse of the inspiration behind each one and that you may experience through them some of the joy and emotion that urges me to share.


(All photography by yours truly)

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Only in America...dreamin' in Red, White, and Blue

Day 175:
Day 174: I enjoyed the fireworks from a boat on the Potomac the other night. I’ll be honest, I would have probably rather been at the lake in Minnesota with my family, but this was a pretty neat place to spend the 4th. The only others on my short list are Boston and Philly!

Day 173: Mmm mmm, margaritas from Guapos in Shirlington!

Day 172: 100 degrees in the shade.

Day 171: Happy 4th of July! This morning I went down to the Archives to hear the Declaration read and it was definitely the highlight of my day. I can't help but worry that things like that won't happen forever and this is how it should be in America! John Adams said of America's birthday, "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more." Anyway, this is something I'll attend as long as I am in DC and as long as it is done..."And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." (Last line of the Declaration of Independence)

Day 170: I’ve been riding through Quantico for months on the train, but today I got to go on base for the first time to see Brian graduate from OCS! There were 4 classes finishing up and it was a pretty awesome thing to experience them all marching across the tarmac with the Marine Corps band playing. Afterwards we got to walk over and look at the obstacle course which of course I was dying to do but couldn’t and the rope that I COULD have climbed Jack said I couldn’t in my dress. Haha, good call, sir. Anyway, afterwards we hosted everyone back to our place and had about 20 Hillsdale people enjoying a beautiful day in Virginia.

Day 169: I realize that this picture is not attractive…but you wouldn’t believe what a free pop on a Friday afternoon can do for people. We also came across a girl sitting at the fountain at Dupont Circle with a sign that simply said “smile”. Cheesy? Perhaps, but it did the trick!

Day 168: FDR had some things right:

Day 167: Sunset on the Potomac
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