After several days of cold and wet weather, today presented a good opportunity to get out and see the cherry blossoms. Most of them haven't peaked yet, but after a season of grey and and murk, the white blossoms are a welcome sight anyway.
They make the Washington and Jefferson monuments more picturesque than they already are.
Along the way I stopped to check out the George Mason monument, which I had missed when I did my tour in September.
It had one of the few fully pink trees in the Tidal Basin.
The trip home provided a few surprises. Outside the Mall entrance to the Smithsonian Metro was a Scientology booth.
This particular entrance was closed, and the one a block away was swamped with tourists. I decided to skip it and head over to the next nearest stop, L'Enfant Plaza.
I'm not familiar with the area, however, and before I managed to find the station I ended up in the plaza proper, off of L'Enfant Pomenade. It was disorienting; just a couple blocks from the crowd-packed open air of the National Mall was this conglomeration of concrete rigid buildings that was almost completely empty and conspicuously quiet. And the architecture!
Just brutal.
It was a few hours well spent. I'm quite glad I did it today; the weather right now is not so promising.
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