Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Postcard from Washington, DC: Icons

The Washington Monument (the color change one-third up occurred after a 23-year halt in construction)...

The Internal Revenue Service (it's tax season) and moving Vietnam Memorial.

Goodbye DC

23 comments:

cieldequimper said...

Bringing back wonderful memories of very hot days around Memorial Day 2002...

Cloudia said...

I long for the days when DC resonated with gravity and trust and great leadership......
*Sigh*

ALOHA from Honolulu
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Anonymous said...

It sounds (and looks) like you had a fantastic time, thanks for your fab photo tour!

Unknown said...

Such gorgeous pictures. Thanks for sharing.

--Damyanti

Co-host, A to Z Challenge 2013

Angel Sánchez-Marco said...

Dos interesantes fotos del famoso Washington Monument, (me gusta mas la de la derecha) y muy impresionante el muro negro de Vietnam Memorial con la trágica lista de nombres que al menos permanecerán en dicho muro para siempre.
Un saludo, Ángel

Milandailyphoto.com said...

real postcards and icons from there

Tanya Breese said...

oh the vietnam memorial is very moving....did you go up in the washington monument?

Seraphinas Phantasie said...

Wonderful impressions from Washington, DC. A wonderful light and signs. Great !

Catherine said...

Fabulous shots of the Washington Monument! Get home safely before the coming storm Lulu (and to think I naively thought spring was around the corner ;)...

Peter said...

Ah ha, bikes would be a great way to get around. Lovely photos of the WM, how come I didn't notice the colour change, it is pronounced.

Ramakant Pradhan said...

Nice pictures. Remind me of my trip 5 years back.

LOLfromPasa said...

I sometimes feel like a broken record when it comes to commenting about your photos...so here it goes again :). Beautiful collection, taken with real vision. Well done, Lulu!

William Kendall said...

Spectacular images!

LONDONLULU said...

Thanks so much!

Jack said...

You have some fine, classic images from Washington today and yesterday, Lulu.

Randy said...

Super shots!

PerthDailyPhoto said...

Super collage Lulu, happy that you had a good trip and merci beaucoup for sharing it with us.

SRQ said...

The Vietname Memorial is so moving. Each time I'm there I see someone at the wall touching a loved one's name. I happen to the guy who devised the method used to place names on the wall -- very interesting. Glad you had a good visit.

EG CameraGirl said...

Sounds like you really enjoyed yourself there!

Virginia said...

Beautiful photos. I hope you got to the WWII Memorial. At night it is amazing!
V

Virginia said...

I was mistaken. It's the Korean War Memorial that I loved I think!
V

Mildred said...

Great captures of the Washington Monument!
Thanks for sharing.

Unknown said...

I'm glad this is not one of the obelisks taken from Egypt. When you visit the Temple of Karnak in Luxor, it's really sad to see just the places where many obelisks were supposed to be standing on.