The Mall, National Gallery of Art, Gardens, Gas and McDonalds

We were home by noon. We left the house around 9:40 and parked by the Smithsonian Castle before ten. We used the park mobile app and walked towards the sculpture garden to start getting some photos for the 52Frames texture challenge this week. The first photo was the grass with the Capitol in the distance. The sculpture garden fountain is always enchanting. Next stop was the national gallery west building. I remembered seeing a Degas ballerina sculpture that had an interesting tutu. Then we walked through the early American furniture section. From there we left the front entrance and walked down the many steps to the gardens and fountain, across the mall to the air and space museum that had no traffic because it was closed. The mall was noticeably less busy - virus surge, school starting? The Hirshhorn museum is getting some sort of facelift and is surrounded by scaffolding. Then on to our favorite Hirshhorn and Smithsonian gardens. It was getting really humid and our hour and a half was almost expired. We only put on 1.6 miles - well short of our usual 2. On the way home we stopped for gas and then McDonald’s. We got home around noon. It’s nice to know we can still do all of the above and have a full day ahead. I spent a lot of it trying to figure out which photo would be most interesting for the challenge. It’s a great hobby - especially now. It’s nice to have a variety of options. Now I just need a better camera.