A windy stroll from West Potomac Park to the Lincoln and Roosevelt memorials, with a few stops in between.
Date(s): January 24, 2009. Album by Deborah Kosnett. Photos by Deborah Kosnett. 1 - 68 of 68 Total. 1744 Visits.
1 A view of the Memorial bridge. That's Rosslyn, VA in the background.
2 Another shot, with rocks and ice.
3 Ducks! Or geese. Probably the latter. I didn't get close enough to the rocks to see.
4 Broken ice floes at the river's edge.
5 Broken floes forming a shining path across the water.
6 I love how the broken ice makes abstract patterns.
7 DC is full of interesting, obscure statues. This one's to John Ericsson, the builder of the battleship Monitor.
8 Here's John himself. Bet he was cold in today's wind. On second though, naah. He was a Swede.
9 Statue detail.
10 More statue detail.
11 Adventure!
12 Labor! The one on the right's Spirit, or something like that.
13 Plaque describing the memorial. Sorry it's so off center; the sun and wind were doing a big number on my eyes.
14 Back of the Lincoln Memorial.
15 Most people probably don't know that the Lincoln Memorial is actually quite detailed, with the name of every state and a lot of government-esque ornamentation.
16 Another shot, with the sun forming a halo.
17 Reflecting pool. 4 days later, they're still removing the armada of Inauguration port-a-potties.
18 Washington Monument and an icy reflecting pool . . . and the brown winter grass. Nice sky, though.
19 Front of the Memorial. It's the dead of winter, the Inauguration's over, and few tourists are left to wander the memorials. Probably just a few, plus people like us, who like to play tourist from time to time.
20 Ice and debris on the reflecting pool.
21 Through the trees, a shot of the Kennedy Center.
22 How many shots of this did I take? A few.
23 That's the WWII memorial, at the other end of the reflecting pool. It's just a few years old.
24 Detail in the Pacific portico.
25 Gorgeous.
26 Walking back toward West Potomac Park, we stumbled upon another obscurity: the DC War Memorial.
27 Descriptive plaque. If you can enlarge the pic enough, you may be able to read it.
28 Part I . . .
29 And Part II. Obviously, this was constructed before anyone knew there'd be another World War.
30 Some of the fallen.
31 Late afternoon sun casts a lovely light. It's almost a miniature of the Jefferson Memorial, but without a central statue.
32 Domed ceiling.
33 "The Great War for Civilization." Too bad that couldn't have been the end of it.
34 I'm guessing this medallion is dedicated to Naval forces.
35 And DC herself . . .
36 Jeff.
37 Me. While we were at the memorial, a German tourist happened by, and we directed him toward the White House. (That's where they all want to go . . . even when Shrub was in office.)
38 Love that late afternoon light.
39 District of Columbia. I do love her, warts and all.
40 The Jefferson Memorial, seen through the dormant branches of the famed Japanese cherry trees.
41 Wider view.
42 Looking back toward Federal Center SW.
43 The Roosevelt Memorial.
44 The memorial is divided into several sections: Prologue, and each of Roosevelt's 4 terms.
45 "Illness gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons... Infinite patience and never-ending persistence"...Eleanor Roosevelt
46 "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American People." Speech before the 1932 Democratic National Convention; FDR's nomination as Presidential Candidate, Chicago, IL, July,2, 1932.
47 Campaign Address, Detroit, Michigan, October 2, 1932.
48 "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished." All of the Memorials quotations may be seen here: http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/memorial/inscript.htm
49 "No Country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order." Second Fireside Chat on Government and Modern Capitalism, Washington, D.C., September 30, 1934.
50 Address at the Dedication of the New Chemistry Building, Howard University, Washington, D.C., October 26, 1936.
51 Fireside chats.
52 Integral to the memorial is a series of fountains. As cold as it's been, they've frozen into some lovely patterns.
53 Some subsequent occupants evidently forgot this.
54 "I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work, more important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work." Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1933.
55 Greeting to the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, Washington, D.C., January 9, 1940.
56 Entering the third term . . .
57 More frozen fountains.
58 Close-up.
59 "They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... Call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."
60 Fala.
61 "Men of good will."
62 "Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind." Address to White House Correspondents' Association, Washington, D.C., February 12, 1943.
63 Eleanor.
64 The best of the frozen waterfalls!
65 Detail.
66 Block of ice!
67 The Washington Monument, as seen from the Roosevelt Memorial.
68 Almost done . . . looking toward the 14th St. Bridge.
