sketchbook: trip to dc

Went to Washington DC, last week and spent two days just walking and visiting the Textile Museum (a little disappointing), Renwick Gallery, Corcoran, National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Gallery of Art, Hirshorn, and the National Gallery Sculpture Garden. I think I walked about 12 hours in two days and it was fantastic (that isn't including rest stops, train time) . I tried to visit the National Museum of American History but it was chock a block with millions of teens on school trips and I had to quit after a futile attempt to see anything beyond a few dresses of the first ladies. It was lovely to revisit some of my old favourites in the National Gallery, but it was a delight to see the current exhibit of "Luis Meléndez (1715–1780) ... recognized as the premier still-life painter in 18th-century Spain"

The fruit, the food looked so fresh you almost wanted to pluck it out of the picture, it made your mouth water. I forgot my glasses so I kept getting too close to the paintings to examine the brush strokes and getting told off, oops. Almost all the still life's were painted on the same wood table and you could recognize which part of the table based on the nicks in the wood.

Just Because

I LOVE this Song

AND
was I the only one that noticed this on the crosswalk at 7th & Madison in DC?

I got a few odd looks from the drivers and other pedestrians when I stopped in the middle of the crosswalk to photograph the ground LOL!