ruthietoots: One of 250 varieties of vegetables Jefferson grew - for sustenance and scientific purposes
ruthietoots: One of four so-called round-abouts encircling Monticello
ruthietoots: Dan admires one of the border plants dramatically named Love Lies Bleeding
ruthietoots: Back lawn at Monticello
ruthietoots: Framed symmetrically -- as Jefferson would have wanted
ruthietoots: From Mulberry Lane toward Jefferson's enormous vegetable garden
ruthietoots: A poncirus orange in the Monticello cemetery
ruthietoots: Jefferson's grave at Monticello
ruthietoots: The Library of Congress - Jefferson Building
ruthietoots: Jefferson called it the Capitol referencing Rome's Capitoline Hill
ruthietoots: From the tip of his toes to the top of Freedom's storied helmet
ruthietoots: Reposing on Capitol Hill
ruthietoots: Dan does DC
ruthietoots: It's been a stormy summer
ruthietoots: At the entry to the NBG greenhouse, the purple berries caught our eye
ruthietoots: In the National Botanic Garden
ruthietoots: Holding an orchid with the hand now healed from stumble in NYC a week earlier
ruthietoots: The Capitol
ruthietoots: Dan & Ruth at the Reflecting Pool
ruthietoots: A favorite spot at the National Gallery
ruthietoots: Tatiana listens as Dan reads about North Tonawanda
ruthietoots: Opening the Visits with My Daughter album
ruthietoots: Remembering Southington and Maine on these pages
ruthietoots: Too bad I didn't take a before shot