My DC - Week 23

On hot, steamy, summer evenings my DC is alive with the sound of sports leagues playing on many of the grassy areas. Last night, despite the rain, we played softball on the ellipse. There is something very cool about playing in the shadow of the Washington Monument or with the White House over your shoulder. This picture shows the opposing team warming up with the Old Executive Office Building in the background.


We won and celebrated at a bar near our office. Pitchers of Bud, Blue Moon and Yuengling flowed on the firm's tab while we ate pizza and reveled in the glow of victory. It was a great night.

In the spirit of celebrating leisure pursuits in DC Here are a series of pictures I took at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival that were pre-empted last Friday. Many of the pictures I took were in the Bhutan section of the festival. I just loved the opportunity to experience a culture that was so foreign to me. This is a display of pigments that caught my eye with the dazzling array of colors.



It's to be expected that all things fiber would catch my eye. Here you see different materials that were used for dying in Bhutan and the beautifully colored yarn that they produce.



Isn't the fabric this woman is weaving gorgeous? Look at the variety of colors!



I couldn't fight the compulsion to check the wrong side of the textiles to see how it looked. See, nobody's perfect.



I would love to have stayed to watch this guy carve all day. Watching a shape or figure slowly emerge from a block of wood or other material is endlessly fascinating to me.



What talent it must take to create such a gorgeous and graceful object!



We're very worried right now because my father-in-law is in the hospital and it's not going well. Please think good thoughts for us.