FREEDOM!!! I am all done with students!!!!!
So I went exploring the national arboretum, which is smack in the middle of a rather skeevy neighborhood in northeast D.C. The arboretum itself is quite nice, though not as big as the one in Chicago, I think. Unless I missed bits of it, which is possible. It does have something no other arboretum has: columns. Big marble columns from the original capitol. Standing in the middle of a field. I had to go back to the car to get my camera, I was so struck by it. Who's idea was it to erect a circle of marble columns in the middle of a field? It just seems so out of place.
So I went exploring the national arboretum, which is smack in the middle of a rather skeevy neighborhood in northeast D.C. The arboretum itself is quite nice, though not as big as the one in Chicago, I think. Unless I missed bits of it, which is possible. It does have something no other arboretum has: columns. Big marble columns from the original capitol. Standing in the middle of a field. I had to go back to the car to get my camera, I was so struck by it. Who's idea was it to erect a circle of marble columns in the middle of a field? It just seems so out of place.
I also saw the Anacostia River. Now I can say I've been there. There was also a collection of bonsai trees. How do they keep the trees from getting big?
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Clearly it commemorates the colonial-era druids.
Ah, of course. I had forgotten the many druids who came to the Americas for religious freedom.
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