National Museums of Bag Search and X-Ray
I wandered over to the National Mall on Tuesday and went through a few of the museums, spending most of my time in the Natural History and Air and Space museums, before walking over to the Capitol and the Washington Monument, before high winds and dark suggested I return home, which involved running into Shimin on the metro.
Overheard at the National Museum of Natural History:
Child (quite calmly): "I request that we go home."
Parent (puzzled): "Then why did you want to come?"
According to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, what passes for art today is a 3 ft x 5 ft tall solid black oil painting, and a 6 ft or so solid black sphere with one eighth missing. (I think it was solid black. It was kind of hard to focus on it, what with there being almost no illumination anyway.)
I took a bunch of pictures with my new camera, but the only ones I really liked are one of amethyst, one of a mammoth fossil, and one of the Washington Monument at sundown. I thought the amethyst was going to make a nice desktop background, but it's too busy for my tastes. If anyone wants the full-res version, let me know.
As I was going through the pictures I took, I was slightly amused to discover that several birds I took pictures of had actually been tagged.
Overheard at the National Museum of Natural History:
Child (quite calmly): "I request that we go home."
Parent (puzzled): "Then why did you want to come?"
According to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, what passes for art today is a 3 ft x 5 ft tall solid black oil painting, and a 6 ft or so solid black sphere with one eighth missing. (I think it was solid black. It was kind of hard to focus on it, what with there being almost no illumination anyway.)
I took a bunch of pictures with my new camera, but the only ones I really liked are one of amethyst, one of a mammoth fossil, and one of the Washington Monument at sundown. I thought the amethyst was going to make a nice desktop background, but it's too busy for my tastes. If anyone wants the full-res version, let me know.
As I was going through the pictures I took, I was slightly amused to discover that several birds I took pictures of had actually been tagged.