Sunday, September 29, 2019

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in September of 2007. Mattie was five years old. I took him to visit a friend who just had a baby. This was Mattie's first experience holding a baby and you can tell he was smiling about it but also feeling uncertain about how to do this correctly. 



Quote of the day: I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. ~ Alyson Noel

We drove to Hains Point today in Washington, DC. It is a public park and golf course along the Potomac River. It isn't a place I visit often. But Peter is participating in a charity golf event this week, and while he was practicing on the greens, I walked Sunny. We literally walked the entire finger you see on this map. It is only about a 2.5 mile walk, but it was hot and humid today. Sunny loved the new adventure and really did not want to stop for breaks. He gets this way when he explores new territory. 

The sights Sunny and I passed along the way. This side is DC, but as I kept walking, I could see Arlington and Alexandria, VA. 

Part of the pathway we were on together. 

This brick structure across the water is the National War College. I did not know it existed, but the building caught my attention, so we looked it up. 

The National War College of the United States is a school in the National Defense University. It is housed in Roosevelt Hall on Fort Lesley J. McNair, the third-oldest Army post still active.

Boaters were out! But so were walkers, joggers, and cyclists. They were all around me. 

After we reached the point and kept on walking, we were now facing Virginia. Specifically this is Reagan National Airport. 

The buildings in Crystal City, VA. Do you see the silver memorial on the right? This is the Air Force Memorial. The three memorial spires range from 201 feet to 270 feet high and appear to be soaring; its array of stainless steel arcs against the sky evoke the image of contrails of the Air Force Thunderbirds as they peel back in a precision 'bomb burst' maneuver. Only three of the four contrails are depicted, at 120 degrees from each other, as the absent fourth suggests the missing man formation traditionally used at Air Force funeral fly-overs.

The Potomac River dotted with sailboats!