Squirl's Nest

Friday, January 16, 2009

The Capitol and the Sculpture Garden

We wanted to tour the Capitol so we headed out fairly early in the morning. There was already quite a line when we got to the ticket booth. Our tour was about an hour later so we killed a little time walking around. Here's the set.

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I still have a thing for metal grates in the ground.
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I like the rainbow effect in this one.
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Then we ducked back into the Botanical Garden.
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Then we went on our tour. Here is our guide.
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That was about for the Capitol for us. Then we walked over to the Sculpture Garden. We saw this on the way. So many pretty water features in DC.
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We thought this building was cool.
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There were a lot of interesting things in the Sculpture Garden.
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This one cracked me up. There will be a lot of younger folks who won't know what this is.
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These cubes were all spinning.
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This is by Alexander Caulder. We have one of his sculptures in downtown Grand Rapids.
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I think this is some kind of aluminum, like the one with the spinning cubes. I'm glad the sun was shining when we saw them.
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Not sure if this is supposed to be a political statement. :-)
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