Yesterday I got a wild hair and decided to wander around the National Mall and take some photos for Flickr. Granted, it probably wasn't the best idea to go out in the middle of the day in 90 degree heat and wander around for over three hours, but If I wasn't gonna do it who would?
You think you've got what it takes? Well, here's the route (approx. 8 miles):
I started at Union Station, walked down to the Capitol, down Independence Ave. past the museums, around the Department of Agriculture, up to the Mall, around the Washington monument, over to the WWII memorial, down the reflecting pool to the Lincoln memorial, went inside and around the Lincoln Memorial, for some unknown reason decided to walk over to Virginia and back across the Arlington bridge, went over to the Vietnam memorial, over to the Einstein Memorial, and then (apparently overcome by heat exhaustion) decided to walk another 15 blocks up to the Big Hunt (aka: The Drinkin' Memorial) for a few beers.
Those "few" beers turned out to be 8 beers and one shot in the span of 90 minutes.
I then took the subway back home, fixed dinner, and switched on the Cubs game. I fell asleep sometime during the 1st inning. I woke up just in time for the post-game, and then spent the rest of the evening trying (in vain) to get back to sleep.
Dammit.
Here's some highlights:
I was meeting up with a friend for lunch at Union Station, so I decided that afterwards I would stop by the Capitol and then wander around the Mall area to get some shots for my Flickr page. The one thing I really wanted to get was a shot of the US Department of Agriculture building. A couple of months ago I was walking past when I noticed this:
It's part of the facade and predates WWII, but I wondered how many of thousands of people had walked by that building every day and never noticed the details. I had to get it.
While walking past the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum I noticed these awesome chili peppers used for decorative landscaping. I'm so freakin' jealous. I have 6 sickly pepper plants that are on death's door and those rocket huggin' sons of bitches down at the Smithsonian have hundreds of beautiful fully-loaded plants that are just being used for decoration. Fuckers.
I had to visit the Einstein Memorial, but all I could think while I was there was "
cousin-fucker". Damn you, Ed.
All-in-all, It was a pretty damned fine day. For way-more pictures click over to
my Flickr page.
Enjoy.
In a half-assed effort to try and get my eLife back on track, I just posted almost one full page of photos up on my Flickr page. Plus, now I got a blog post out of posting the photos online. Score one for me.
I threw up a handful of random photos up on my Flickr page. This should serve as a warning to everyone that booze and photography make strange bedfellows, indeed.
Today I found an abandoned foundry out by my parents' place and got some great industrial decay photos.
I just got around to posting up about 30 pics from Williamsburg (Virginia) and Prairie Du Chien (Wisconsin) up to my Flickr site.
I've been neglecting my Flickr page lately. That's gotta stop.
Instead of taking a load of pics and waiting for a few months to sort through 'em (as I usually do) I've decided to cut the shit and start sorting and posting my photos to my Flickr page every couple of days while I'm out here. There's about one page of new stuff from Illinois and Wisconsin. 
Yesterday I got a wild hair and decided to wander around the National Mall and take some photos for Flickr. Granted, it probably wasn't the best idea to go out in the middle of the day in 90 degree heat and wander around for over three hours, but If I wasn't gonna do it who would?
I started at Union Station, walked down to the Capitol, down Independence Ave. past the museums, around the Department of Agriculture, up to the Mall, around the Washington monument, over to the WWII memorial, down the reflecting pool to the Lincoln memorial, went inside and around the Lincoln Memorial, for some unknown reason decided to walk over to Virginia and back across the Arlington bridge, went over to the Vietnam memorial, over to the Einstein Memorial, and then (apparently overcome by heat exhaustion) decided to walk another 15 blocks up to the Big Hunt (aka: The Drinkin' Memorial) for a few beers.
It's part of the facade and predates WWII, but I wondered how many of thousands of people had walked by that building every day and never noticed the details. I had to get it.
While walking past the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum I noticed these awesome chili peppers used for decorative landscaping. I'm so freakin' jealous. I have 6 sickly pepper plants that are on death's door and those rocket huggin' sons of bitches down at the Smithsonian have hundreds of beautiful fully-loaded plants that are just being used for decoration. Fuckers.
I had to visit the Einstein Memorial, but all I could think while I was there was "cousin-fucker". Damn you, Ed.
I just posted up another batch of photos on my Flickr page - Some old, some new.
Apparently, Carl from ATHF lives in the neighborhood. I never knew.
Yeah, I'm a freakin' slack-ass. I just got around to posting up the pics from my trip back to IL in April on my Flickr page. 
I just got up the second batch of 20 photos up to my Flickr page. If you like artsy (and/or fartsy), you're in for a treat - Just click to "large" and enjoy.
I just posted up onto my Flickr page the first half of the horde of photos I've been accumulating. Look for the second load sometime next week.
Man, has it been a crazy couple of months. First it's so warm that flowers start poking up in January, then February was all bitter cold & snow, and now it's supposed to be in the 60's this weekend - Go figure. 
It's been a beautiful couple of weeks out here on the East Coast. It looks like our luck will hold out until Monday/Tuesday of next week. 75 degrees in January - I could get used to this.
I just trudged through the whirlwind of several hundred unsorted pics from Chicago, the other bits of IL, and DC from the last month. I ended up grabbing 32 of my favorites to post up on my Flickr page for your casual perusal. Enjoy.
