A Day in the Nation's Capital

As I mentioned earlier in another post, I haven't been a tourist in Washington D.C. in many years. But when family was visiting last month we may a day trip to the nation's capital. We visited two Smithsonian museums during the day, The National Air and Space Museum and National Museum of Natural History. The last time I visited the Natural History Museum was in the 1960s. I was a student at Charles Carroll Elementary School and it was a class trip. It was comforting to know the elephant and whale were still on exhibit. The street people seem to stay in your mind when you visit a big city. Of course I kept my eyes open for nature and I was rewarded with some nice images of birds. I would like to go back to visit the butterfly garden during the summer. I just hope I make it back sooner this time.

Union Station

I'm back. I was under the weather and fell behind in my blogging. For those that have been following my blog, we had family in town and made a few day trips. One of the trips was to Washington D.C. I haven't been to the nation's capital as a tourist in a long time but had been there for work and saw the inside of government buildings previously.

We parked at the Union Station and ate lunch there. The station was built in the early 1900's and is beautiful. I took some images as we were walking through on the way to a few museums. I would have loved to have seen the station in the 1940's. They said World War II at least 200,000 people passed through every day.

The one thing I know is I want to return and capture a few more images.