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Personal Mini Family Vacation to Washington, D.C. Parts 3 and 4

Mount Vernon is a gorgeous place to visit and the last time I was there was with my father and grandparents in the 1990’s. Since then, they’ve built a beautiful education center and museum. And I completely forgot to mention the weather, warm, breezy, but not humid! Very “un-Virginia” for early summertime, just beautiful and perfect! If you don’t know already, Mount Vernon was George and Martha Washington’s estate on the Potomac River. You are not allowed to take any photos inside the main house, but anywhere else you are.

To see the beginning of this mini vacation click here.
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P6280526WashingtonDCTrip.jpgDifferent areas has archaeological digs going on, including at the Slave’s Burial site.
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P6280537WashingtonDCTrip.jpgWe met a little friend at the original family vault. Can someone identify this lizard?
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P6280557WashingtonDCTrip.jpgInside Washington’s Tomb is both George and his wife Martha.
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P6280569WashingtonDCTrip.jpgVisiting the Slave Memorial and Burial Grounds.
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P6280586WashingtonDCTrip.jpgAfter paying tribute to the Slaves Burial Ground, we walked down to the river and then to Pioneer Farm.
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P6280605WashingtonDCTrip.jpgHere, a gentleman demonstrates to the children how to separate the wheat in order to eat it, as an example of what threshing does in the replica of the 16-sided barn designed by Washington for treading wheat.
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P6280704WashingtonDCTrip.jpgI asked if I could take his portrait, and he was very happy to let me, his wife is an artist as well.
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P6280741WashingtonDCTrip.jpgInside the 16-sided barn.
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P6280755WashingtonDCTrip.jpgAn example of a cabin that the Washington’s slave had lived in.
P6280760WashingtonDCTrip.jpgWe took the wooded trail back to the mansion and to meet up with the rest of our family for lunch.
P6280764WashingtonDCTrip.jpgI wanted to wander around a little before eating….
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P6280784WashingtonDCTrip.jpgThe buildings were getting repainted while we were there.
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P6280789WashingtonDCTrip.jpgAs I was wandering around, I spotted a deer near the estate.
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P6280825WashingtonDCTrip.jpgOn the way back to my aunt and uncle’s home, we stopped at Jefferson’s Memorial. I had never been here before and it was on my list for a long time.
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P6280861 1WashingtonDCTrip.jpgMy daughter checking out the view.
P6280880WashingtonDCTrip.jpgIt took a while, but after patiently waiting, there was a break in the crowd of people, and I got a shot of President Jefferson’s statue without anyone in it.
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P6280884WashingtonDCTrip.jpgAn engagement session, the light was perfect for it.
P6280888WashingtonDCTrip.jpgAcross the river you can see the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument.
P6280899WashingtonDCTrip.jpgCan you guess whose statue is shown below? Tell me in the comments.
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We had done a lot of walking that day, but I want to go back, because I felt that I missed on so many things. Taking my daughter there was great because she had been studying the Revolutionary War and seeing everything that day was important to her.

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The First Day Of Snow

This winter has been so far very mild and hardly any snow at all. So when it does come down, we get a “little” excited around here. I took my new Olympus E-M5 MarkII out in the wind and falling snow with the Zuikio 14-150mm f4 lens, the combination makes this perfect, as it’s weather sealed and freezer proof. But it’s a slow lens…and once you’re used to faster f2.8 lenses then having a slower lens is hard to work with at times. But, I’m saving up for better glass and renting when I need them for this camera. In the meantime, it’s not like I don’t have excellent camera equipment already, I do have pro Canon full frame DSLRs and fast L glass. It’s just nice not to have all that weight every once in awhile.

The day was pretty overcast and grey, and I wanted to test the focusing with the snow. So I went across the street from my house, and down to the creek. It was bitter cold out!
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 It was 25 degrees and very windy outside! But that never keeps kids and adults from sledding down the hill! I ran into some friends of ours and took some shots of them.
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Overall, the camera did really well, I was surprised! Some shots were missed, and a little soft, possibly my fault and getting used to the system. But I’m really pleased so far.