In The Neighborhood

One thing we have appreciated about living in Texas is the genuine hospitatility folks from here show each other and even to those who come from other places. The Houston area is quite a melting pot as there are people here from all around the world.

We have been around long enough to know that of all the places we have lived, Texas is the one place we feel at home.

Tracy and I were going to be in Baltimore for a business meeting and to Pennsylvania to visit a co-worker prior to surgery,so it was only natural that we stop by to visit a fellow Texan while we were in the neighborhood.

I was sure G. W. would appreciate a big "Howdy" from home and I thought he might even remember me from the CD I once sent him. I got a note back from his dad but never got a call or a card from G.W.....

DC is quite a place and one that I'm not sure I fully understand. The traffic is predictibly bad and the crush of the city is everywhere. We wanted to visit some of the landmarks and were fortunate to secure a parking spot two blocks or so from the Lincoln Memorial.

I'll let the pictures tell the rest.

Lincoln Memorial


Big Man in a Big Chair


The view from the Lincoln Memorial

Hey is that G.W. in the copter?


Howdy there George! It's us from Texas!


Vietnam Memorial


WW II Memorial


Washington Monument


Jefferson Memorial


The White House from near the Washington Monument


Bath Time in the Reflecting Pool


A Mother's Watchful Eye



Ready to Protect her Babies


Lone Goose


The White House (back door?)

If you have tinme to visit the Nation's Capital - it is worth seeing once in a lifetime. You get a real sense of history and patriotism as you see what great sacrifice was made to preserve the freedoms we all enjoy.