Thursday, July 02, 2009

Pictures from June

What is up with Blogger always uploading pictures in a weird order? Oh well, here are some pictures from my somewhat limited adventures considering how long I've been here.

Stuffed wolf posed as an ominous predator at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.


Bears!

An obscene sculpture at the national sculpture exhibit.

Half pizza cutter half runaway shopping cart wheel?

I look at the Hall of Statues in the Capitol building. It was rather nice.

The Capitol rotunda. How very rotund.

A look at the east side of the Capitol building.

The Library of Congress. Looks European.

The 45 carat Hope Diamond. That's a lot of ice.

This is the star on the floor beneath the rotunda. This marks the center of the city and the point at which the city is split into four parts. This is why you have to specify which quadrant on any piece of mail going to D.C. I'm in the northwest quadrant, as is most of the things you might recognize in D.C.

More to come later!