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This is Dupont Circle, the brilliant traffic flow helper at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave, New Hampshire Ave, Connecticut Ave, P St, and 19th. It takes about 10 minutes to walk across and about 7 hours to drive across. And there's a fountain in the middle

Walking down P St towards Georgetown, the general aim of my Saturday afternoon wanderings... they're very serious about you not parking here. Very.

Mmm, and that picture is supposed to make me want to eat there?

Apparently this was also a good idea...

... it makes more sense from this angle, but it's definitely funnier from the other one.

(there's a lot of this happening around town)

Again, apparently I'm an atypical consumer, but advertising something as "An anatomy textbook come to life" is actually NOT going to make me want to go see it. I prefer my anatomy textbooks to stay un-alive, nicely contained in their bindings. More than that, I prefer not to read anatomy textbooks.

Now in Georgetown - the main drag is... Wisconsin Ave! And look at the pretty petunias! It felt just a little bit like home. :)

along Wisconsin Ave

Georgetown is right on the river, and just in from the river is the C&O (Chesapeake and Ohio) Canal. There's a path along the canal that actually runs for something like 89 miles! That's farther than even I could walk in a day!

Down river - the Kennedy Center

zoooooom in on the Kennedy Center. In related news, I saw Ben Kweller in concert here a couple weeks ago (for free, thanks, DC). He's a great singer/songwriter but also a really huge geek! Tight pink cords and a horizontally striped white and gray sweater? Seriously? It was fun though.

This is the first of about five million pictures I took (today) of "the sun on the water." I just can't help myself, it's so beautiful. And don't worry, I may have taken five million, but I didn't upload them all... maybe only about half... ;)

A little shopping area along the boardwalk by the river... and by "little" I mean "actually kind of substantial."

Alright, enough of the shopping centers, I took off down a little path and ended up walking along the river... under the freeway...

This is the bridge that connects DC with Virginia.

Modified "sun on the water"

See? It's a streetlight along the freeway

Here's the bridge! And there's Virginia... Arlington, I believe.

Here's the C&O Canal path... 89 miles up is the end of the path, but only about 18 miles up is Great Falls State Park. I had to be very firm in telling myself that just because 18 was a much smaller number than 89 didn't mean I could probably walk it (and back) in a day. I need to find me a bike. Seriously.

This was maybe just a little disgusting.

(Bridges are another thing I photograph obsessively... the direct result of having lived in Dubuque Iowa, on the Mississippi, for a year and a half. I really can't help it. Notice, however, how this bridge picture is slightly different from this last one - it's taken from an height closer to the level of the water, and also there's a branch.)

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Here we go, another variation - spider web with sun on the water

Don't they look so happy???? That will be me someday, I swear it, that will be me someday.

Oh, hey, a picture of the sun on the water! This, for the record, was taken from the bridge, which I couldn't help but walk across. To Virginia.

Be still my beating heart, a kayak rental place. Isn't it beautiful??

Georgetown from the bridge...

... aaaand the kayak rental place from the bridge. Someday...

here comes Arlington!

(there's also a lot of this)

Aaaand Virginia! ... which apparently has such a huge preoccupation with the use of radar as it relates to your speed that they have to announce it on not one but two giant signs right exactly at the point of welcome to their whole entire state. Ok then. Also, they're having an auction. Good, good.

I didn't spend much time in Virginia... just enough to laugh at/take a picture of the welcome sign(s). This is a view of DC on the way back across.

You cannot see my house from here. Oh well. But you can see that shopping center with the big fountain and boardwalk that I took a picture of earlier. So that's something.