We walked around the plaza to remember mom and visit some of the places she liked and to notice the changes. We haven't walked around the plaza since March 2020.

 

 

The center of the Plaza. The obelisk is gone. We are looking forward to the new work that will someday grace our plaza.

 

Telephone outside of Pasquels. It is "closed for the winter." There are no lines of crazy people waiting to get into this overpriced over rated place!

 

This is the saddest "gone for ever" downtown place. The Blue Corn downtown is closed forever. It was a family favorite for us for decades.

 

Inn of Loretto where we walked with mom and dad when they went to the Christmas Concert at the Loretto Chapel. It was mom's last trip to Santa Fe.

 

The Camera Shop across from the La Fonda. I believe it closed at the beginning of the pandemic.

 

 

One of the whimsical windows at the La Fonda. This is for the shop called Finer Things.

 

Joel reading the paper on the Plaza.

Hallway at the La Fonda.
 

Washington DC Monuments at Night

Goodbye Fogelson

Washington DC - Library of Congress

Washington DC

Washington DC - National Museum of the American Indian

This museum was really enjoyable. The food in the cafe is outstanding and the exhibits are well done. I especially liked an exhibit on treaties. It was strange timing... the day we were visiting the museum the IAIA archivist was in DC in a near-by house collecting the papers of Suzan Harjo, one of the people instrumental in researching and creating the treaty exhibit.

The building is beautiful and has a lot of symbolic architecture and art inside and as part of the landscape.

Washington DC - Kayak Trip

Kayaking in the Potomac. We launched from a kayak rental place near the Key Bridge. The day we kayaked there was a college rowing regatta going on, so there were lots of boats in the water and hundreds of people standing along the shores watching the boat races.

Here we are watching one of the races.

Washington DC - Buildings and Monuments

The day we visited most of the memorials we rented these city bikes in Georgetown and rode them to nearly all of the monuments. It was a super hot day - 92 degrees and humid. We were happy to be able to see so many places so quickly.

The White House - in the backyard 

Korean War Memorial

Vietnam Memorial.  I visited this when I was 13 years old and the memorial was really new at that time.  In my memory it was one of the saddest places in the world.  Visiting it now, it didn't seem as sad, and the Vietnam Veterans who were at the memorial did not seem sad on this particular day.

Capitol

Washington DC - Protest

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