Holiday Weekend in DC

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The Christmas Market in front of the American Art Museum.

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The National Building Museum had a display of photographs illustrating the damage and repair of the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral that occurred as a result of the earthquake a few years ago.

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Lunchtime

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A very special concert with the NSO conducted by Sarah Hicks and Cameron Carpenter playing the Rubenstein organ, as well as Copland, Creston, Bates, and John Adams. American music at its best.

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The Kennedy Center was making preparations for the Honors celebraton on Sunday evening.

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A stroll the next morning by the White House on our way to the Renwick Gallery.

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Executive Office Building

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Lafayette Park across from the White House

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Roller hockey game in front of the Blair House

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That’s Jen looking at the home of the White House Historical Association

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The Blair House - part of the White House complex for visiting dignitaries

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The Renwick re-opened after an extensive renovation with nine installations filling the entire building.

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Miles and miles of ordinary embroidery thread created the illusion of a rainbow that you could touch.

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Woven will saplings

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Game Fish, by Larry Fuente - created from found pieces of plastic, toys, poker chips, coins, dice, and many other things.

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A beautiful, shimmering, unending, never-repeating vision of pure light.

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Wonder at the Renwick

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From floor to ceiling, a representation of the wave energy created by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011.

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A recreation of a 150 year old hemlock tree created from millions of small hand-carved cedar segments. When the installation closes, it will be placed on the forest floor where the original tree was found.

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Maya Lin, creator of the Vietnam War Memorial, used glass marbles to fold the Chesapeake Bay watershed on the floor and up the walls of this entire room.

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Perhaps the most jarring installation in the exhibit, created from car tires, it added the odor of rubber and the raw sense of cut edges and reminded us in an in-your-face style what modern man is creating in the world.

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An entire room of bugs

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On the side of the Renwick, we’re on our way to lunch.

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Farragut Square

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Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the afternoon sun




© Russ Milam 2015