Went to a garden party...
Apr. 21st, 2012 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsI have been to the White House. Well... the outside of it. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shawan_7 and I took the White House Garden Tour, a free tromp through the South Lawn. The Marine band was playing (the full formal dress didn't surprise me, but the woman conductor did) and there were numbers by the important things, explained in a little brochure they handed out. (I'd say more about the brochure, but I forgot to get it back from Shawan after lunch.) There were also blown up pictures of important doings on the South lawn, such as Bush I and Elizabeth II planting a tree, the Kennedy children and a pony, Truman looking concerned as one of the Presidential turkeys tried to launch itself at him, and the Beer Summit.
I must say, the Rose Garden doesn't look that impressive when it's not in bloom. However, the Oval Office pokes out a bit into it, a sudden curve in the straight walls. I took a photo for a group of people posing on the path in front of it.
On the other hand, Michelle Obama's vegetable garden looks stunning. There is a lot growing there - I saw tidy signs for spinach, kale, lettuces, broccoli, and peas, and those were just the beds closest to the viewing platform. All the herbs were crowded into one bursting bed.
I've also learned that the Touch may take pictures in a pinch, but it's crap for things that need high resolution or telephoto. S got some great shots, such as the one up from the queue to the White House, and from the WH down past the fountain to the Jefferson Memorial in the distance.
By the time Shawan and I had found the queue, stood in it, gone through the garden, walked past the garden to look the huge golden angel on top of a WWI memorial (S got a lovely photo of it framed through the trees), and then we'd walked from 17th back to 7 and G for lunch, I was knackered. I have a lot to do this weekend: even though I spot cleaned after Mickey's final weeks, the floors need a good scrubdown; I've got another of the race and Who essays to peer review; I've got 3 sets of comments to put into my essay; and I'm well overdue on the next set of edits on my Sherlock fic. Not to mention setting up my food for the next week.
...and, because there's nothing like having a lot that seriously needs doing to make me want to do anything but, I've been tweaking the (Who Wants Me For a) Flatmate Scarf pattern. It's brilliant, don't get me wrong... but it turns out that I hate cabling. So I'm keeping the center gansey part but changing the cables to mock. This go around I'm also going to use Remix's natural white instead of the pure white alpaca I've been using.
shawan_7 and I took the White House Garden Tour, a free tromp through the South Lawn. The Marine band was playing (the full formal dress didn't surprise me, but the woman conductor did) and there were numbers by the important things, explained in a little brochure they handed out. (I'd say more about the brochure, but I forgot to get it back from Shawan after lunch.) There were also blown up pictures of important doings on the South lawn, such as Bush I and Elizabeth II planting a tree, the Kennedy children and a pony, Truman looking concerned as one of the Presidential turkeys tried to launch itself at him, and the Beer Summit.I must say, the Rose Garden doesn't look that impressive when it's not in bloom. However, the Oval Office pokes out a bit into it, a sudden curve in the straight walls. I took a photo for a group of people posing on the path in front of it.
On the other hand, Michelle Obama's vegetable garden looks stunning. There is a lot growing there - I saw tidy signs for spinach, kale, lettuces, broccoli, and peas, and those were just the beds closest to the viewing platform. All the herbs were crowded into one bursting bed.
I've also learned that the Touch may take pictures in a pinch, but it's crap for things that need high resolution or telephoto. S got some great shots, such as the one up from the queue to the White House, and from the WH down past the fountain to the Jefferson Memorial in the distance.
By the time Shawan and I had found the queue, stood in it, gone through the garden, walked past the garden to look the huge golden angel on top of a WWI memorial (S got a lovely photo of it framed through the trees), and then we'd walked from 17th back to 7 and G for lunch, I was knackered. I have a lot to do this weekend: even though I spot cleaned after Mickey's final weeks, the floors need a good scrubdown; I've got another of the race and Who essays to peer review; I've got 3 sets of comments to put into my essay; and I'm well overdue on the next set of edits on my Sherlock fic. Not to mention setting up my food for the next week.
...and, because there's nothing like having a lot that seriously needs doing to make me want to do anything but, I've been tweaking the (Who Wants Me For a) Flatmate Scarf pattern. It's brilliant, don't get me wrong... but it turns out that I hate cabling. So I'm keeping the center gansey part but changing the cables to mock. This go around I'm also going to use Remix's natural white instead of the pure white alpaca I've been using.
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Date: 2012-04-24 10:39 pm (UTC)