Flower Mart, Celebrating Asia

Map of the National Cathedral grounds

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Tower of power

People dwarfed by the entrance

Stopped for lunch

Chatting up

Look up up, up, up

Bill, Maria & Garrett

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Fiddlehead ferns?

Tiny tower on a street sign

Nave

Tall

Stained glass

Up on the 7th floor

Damage from the 2011 earthquake

A fix from above

Behind the scenes

Maria pondering

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Gargoyle tower tour begins

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Watch your head

She barely has to bend over

Garrett can barely make it through

Texting with Bo about the adventure

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Gargoyles are created in pairs, like this old man...

... and baby

squirrel (?) and owl

Very high up

Rooster

Camera man

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Tour guide shows us the way

Garrett the Grotesque

Chomping on the corner

Robot / technology

See the meter on his face?

Kennedy Center, left of the bridge

Washington Monument

Looking over the grounds

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Stone surveillance camera (pointed at the Russian embassy!)

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People at the entrance

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Penguin with a fish

Bear with a fish

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Warmonger w/missile

Pacifist w/gas mask

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Hearst Hall

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Look! I am above you

Vader lives on the dark side of the cathedral

Darth Vader

Straining to see

Staying away from the edge

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No resemblance

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Gargoyles have a water spout

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Detail of the front door

Front door detail

Front door

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Purple flowers

We finally figured out that it's wisteria

Purple!

Neighbor's yard

Neighbor's yard 2

A stranger's pretty garden

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