Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Washington DC - Day Trips

Union Station

Lessons for us

View from my hotel room


Chinese Friendship Gate

Inside the Spy Musuem

 
Posters inside the hotel life
















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Canadian embassy - The only foreign embassy on Pennsylvania avenue...

...to commemorate their friendship


Little Dancer aged Fourteen
Plaster by Edgar Degas

Ginevra de' Benci 1474/1478
Leonardo's only painting in America.
This young Florentine lady was much admired for
her culture, beauty & character.
She sits before a juniper bush...

Reverse - Laurel & palm branches encircling a juniper sprig.
The Latin inscription means "Beauty Adorns Virtue"












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