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A great day for a wander around Dumbarton Oaks gardens with Cindy and her family
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We finished our visit above the pool where someone in Cindy's family captured the glory of the garden that afternoon
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The end of Election Day with the team at our precinct (Brent's photo)
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It's a spectacle when the crows bathe
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It's our annual tulip planting day
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Laszlo reading the Gettysburg Address at the Lincoln Monument
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Gizella and Laszlo as we begin our tour of the monuments side of the DC Mall
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My favorite part of the FDR monument: his wife Eleanor
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Hoping this DC hotdog will be as good as the ones he remembers from childhood in NYC
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While Laszlo and Gizella visited the Air & Space Museum, I watched people in a nearby park
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"Turkish" breakfast on their final morning in the US
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Copied from an old slide and printed to gift to Karen, Karen in Venice during Top Deck tour in March 1980
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Copied from an old slide and printed to gift to Karen, Ruth & Carmen in Venice during Top Deck tour in March 1980
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Copied from an old slide, Ruth and Karen in Footbridge kitchen - March 1980
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Four plus decades ago Karen and I were exchange students in England; now we're having tea once again in Norfolk, Virginia
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In Norfolk, they are seeing climate change at the foot of their driveway
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Setting out for the Chrysler Museum before the tide traps us at home
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High tide is almost at the Chrysler Museum doors
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A few minutes after I took my photo, two guys pushed the car to dry land
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The Chrysler Museum is known for its glass collection
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I'm especially fond of early 20th century art glass
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We started our visit of the Norfolk Botanical Gardens with the bonsais
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We're hoping the pain and the cane are temporary
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The train allowed us to see most of the extensive grounds
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She blends right in with the zinnias
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I was intrigued by the pot hangers
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Entering the perennial garden
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Though a bit bedraggled, this Butterfly lily smells sweet -- as sweet as an Oriental lily
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Before leaving on our boat excursion I got a shot of low tide (and drainage work) on Karen's street
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Karen & Lewie pulling us next to the dock
