April 13, 2026 [LINK / comment]
Weekend visit to Washington
Jacqueline and I were in northern Virginia on February 21 (Saturday), and we thought it would be fun to drive into Washington, where many interesting things have been happening lately.
One of the interesting things is that President Trump's name or face now adorns multiple buildings in Washington. This composite image summarizes the most notable cases of this extraordinary egotistical excess:
TOP LEFT: Justice Dept. Building; TOP RIGHT: The United States Institute of Peace; BOTTOM: The Kennedy Center. (Feb. 21, 2026) Roll your mouse over the image to see a closeup of those buildings with the President's name or face.
I will leave for another day some kind of blog post about our (apparently) demented Chief Executive, and the woes that are now befalling our sadly misled nation thanks to his awful words and deeds.
Among the other sights we saw that bright and sunny afternoon were the Supreme Court building, the Russell Senate Office building, the Ronald Reagan Building / Internat Trade Center, the Albert Einstein statue, the Federal Reserve building (currently undergoing a major and rather controversial renovation), and the Washington Post building. That last structure is situated along the north side of Franklin Park, the existence of which I had somehow forgotten many years ago. I guess I never ventured into that part of D.C. very often when I worked in D.C.
To see some of the above photos in larger size, see the Chronological Photos, 2026 web gallery page, which is still "under construction." Here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia we had another brief snow event on March 12, but it was just a dusting. The bizarre "ice blizzard" that we endured on January 27