I went specifically to tour a couple of the shows at the National Gallery of Art and more about them in separate posts. It was a cold day here 27˚F, and I wish I'd remembered to wear a hat. Still there were crowds of people. The line outside the National Conservatory and Botanical Gardens turned me away from there. Thankfully, the National Gallery of Art was not the main destination of most of the people.
If you've never been and you find yourself in the Capitol of the free world, you really need to make the time to visit. The open beauty of I. M. Pei's East Building is really cathedral-like. The iconic Calder mobile is the pinnacle of his ouvre. In this photo you can also see the whimsical array of Ellsworth Kelly paintings across the rear right wall. Few other venues could even display such a work.
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a series of bronze sculptures found on the edge of the reflecting pool at the base of the U.S. Capitol Building. It's probably the most anonymous presidential memorial in Washington D.C. The reason being, that the majority of people who see it, don't even know what the hell it is!The Washington monument rising out of some post-apocolyptic forest, the eerie reminder of the once great city? Naw....
It's just what it looks like from the mini-wetland/woodland garden outside of the National Museum of the American Indian. 
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