Enid Haupt Garden

Aside from the US Botanical Garden, the Enid Haupt garden in the Smithsonian Castle grounds is one of our favorites. When we lived on Capitol Hill we walked through both of them almost every morning. Now we visit about once a week and try to get to one or the other when I’m looking for photo options for the 52Frames challenge. This week we stopped by the Enid Haupt garden on the way back from visiting the National Gallery of Art. I was looking for items with texture, and there were a lot of possibilities. The plants and flowers were bursting in the late summer season. Between the heat and the excessive rains we have had in the area this year the environment was perfect to create this very humid and tropical place. It feels more like Florida than Florida. Even the grass on the mall remained green this year. The number of visitors also was less this week than even lasts week. I rather like it that way - especially trying to stay as far away rom anyone as possible. Even though we moved to northern Virginia over two years ago it still feels like we still live on Capitol Hill. After all, we are part of the DMV, and a Washington DC suburb - still close enough to be considered Washingtonians.