Our Polis

I clearly don’t get out into the city enough. Thank goodness for visitors to have an excuse to go exploring my own backyard!

Article III, reppin’ it.

SCOTUS. Gorgeous.

The Library of Congress. It is connected to the Capitol by an underground tunnel. Underground tunnels are a recurring theme in the government architecture of Washington D.C. (and Georgetown). We seem to really enjoy tunnels and secret passageways.

Inside the Capitol:

Baby rotunda, with a chandelier rescued from a demolished cathedral by Jackie Kennedy.

THE Rotunda, with the beautiful painted oculus. The poor artist injured his back doing the frieze here, apparently his downfall.

The whispering gallery – it is hard to keep secrets when they can be heard on the other side of the room.