We wanted to pack in a little more sightseeing before heading to cousin Shara's house for dinner and then on to Charlottesville. We started out at the US Botanical Gardens, which was having a train show entitled Dino-mite with giant dinosaurs made out of plant matter:
The inside exhibit was no less ambition, with Washington, D.C., landmarks also crafted out of plants:
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| Jefferson Memorial |
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| There's even a Jefferson statue inside! |
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| Lincoln Monument (with Lincoln inside) |
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| Botanical gardens (older version) |
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| African American History museum |
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| More botanic gardens |
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| US Capital |
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| US Supreme Court |
It was a short walk over to the Capital building, where we checked out the Capital tree. This year it was donated by Nevada (it rotates to different national forests) and they get the honor of decorating it:
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| Close-ups of some of the cool Nevada ornaments |
Lastly, we made our way to the Hirshhorn Museum, which had a cool exhibit contrasting Basquiat and Banksy, as well as a lot of other great contemporary art (I had no idea it had such an extensive collection of famous works):
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| Original Basquiat piece |
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| Banksy homage to it |
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| They had a room with some of Basquiat's early sketches |
Onto the main exhibit:
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| Mondrian |
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| Caulder |
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| Picasso |
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| O'Keefe |
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| Grandma Moses |
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| Pollock |
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| This was my favorite -- it was an installation done "in place" by Laurie Anderson over a week |
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