Adventurous friends

I live about an hour away from Washington DC with lots of exhibitions and sites to explore. I have been on a few exploratory adventures into DC with my intrepid exploration partners - Noreen and Shelley. So far we've been to the photographic exhibition of 18th century Burma which I talked about in an earlier post - and since then we have been to the Eastern Market  and the United States Botanic Garden: the latter is essentially a giant atrium - but a very interesting atrium. Here are a few pictures. In the first picture I am trying to be a photographic artist as Shelley peers in the window. We had discovered the offices of National Home Care & Hospice but it was closed.

And here is Noreen's hand pointing at the site of purchase of the Tibetan carpet she is holding!

Nothing like good sweet potatoes - kumara - yum! Lots of fruit and vegies in addition to flying carpets.

And one should never lose perspective on an open sea!

And here are a few piccies of the Botanic Gardens. They had a particularly captivating exhibition on 'roots' - and out the front they had a 'tree root' sculpture which reminded me of overly active heart ventricles which the artist fittingly called Romeo and Juliet - or perhaps what's left of them in essential botanic form.

I thought this fellow's beard bore a strong resemblance to the exposed roots he midwifed into the air.

And here is some botanical plant life.

And guess what this is? It's a close-up of my sun hat - not a pink cycad! Can you believe that?

And here's a floating plant...sticker! What's real?

Thanks so much Noreen and Shelley - now on to the next adventure with...Shelley and Noreen!