Morning Walk on the National Mall

It’s been a couple of weeks since we drove in to town for a morning walk. So yesterday we decided it was time to do just that. So we parked at the Tidal Basin and started out towards the MLK memorial. It was very quiet along the pathway. In fact the crowds have subsided and that’s just the way I like it. We crossed over on independence avenue to the US Park’s newly opened horse stables. There was one horse outside and not much going on inside the new exhibit. I was hoping to see horses in the actual stable but that didn’t seem to be an option. Then we walked past the Washington Monument and towards the Department of Agriculture. They have a people’s garden there as there is also one at the US Botanic garden. You can tell summer is coming to a close. The gardeners are trimming back just about everything in the Smithsonian castle gardens. The brilliant and unusual flowers are all starting to fade. On the way back to the car one of the cherry trees is decidedly peculiar. There is another one called “stumpy” past the Jefferson Memorial. This one looks like its twin. For whatever reason they bloom in the spring but look pretty rough the rest of the year. I have to say this was one of the more low key walks we have taken. Sometimes that’s a god thing.