Great trip to DC!!

What a great stay in DC, and what trip can you take without a picture of the reflection pool from the Lincoln Memorial. Even if the reflection pool is dry and being cleaned in preparation of the summer time when the visitors will all be visiting!!! We also visited many of the museums.Some of them were more exciting than others. I really enjoyed the new Museum of American Indians. One of the most exciting exhibitions was a collection of woven work by an american indian. The entire museum had an enormous collection of work by all different american indian art work both day to day activity and a large collection of material for religious activities. This picture is of some recent art work by an american indian doing really interesting recycling materials. I really enjoyed his work.

We also went to a number of museums with both Eastern areas and from art from all over the world. All of these museums also had large numbers of fiber related work.

These interesting collection came from the museums near the Castle. These two pictures are just a small collection of all the Fiber art I found in the museums. It is really nice that so many people are producing fiber art.

We went to the american collection of Bonsai trees.

Some of these are 100 to 200 years old.

This beautiful bonsai was trained since 1625. It was donated to the United states.

They have been store in one place and the collection is outstanding.

We spent several hours just walking through this beautiful park and enjoying all the bonsai.

Also it turns out that this is where the old columns from the capital are stored. When the expanded the c

apital, they moved the columns here and stored them. An interesting place to see them.