Smithsonian and Yorktown, VA

Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian

 We have been looking forward to getting back to D.C. and visiting some of the Smithsonian Museums.  First we went to Dulles to the fairly new Air and Space Museum.  It is amazing!  It is hard to believe that so much aircraft is inside one building--and some of them are huge!  As always, it's hard to choose just a few pictures from the man I took, but here are some.  Check out the top speed of the Blackbird 2,250 mph!

The Space Shuttle

The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

National History Museum - Amazing formations from the earth!

since this is a life-size elephant, you can get an idea of the size of just a small part of this museum

American History Museum- this is the Civil War Draft Wheel

George Washington's clothes worn 1783-1789

Wow...doesn't this look real?  It is a sculpture in the Hirschhorn Art Museum.  It is much bigger than life and totally naked! 

On to Yorktown--Revolutionary Way Battleground, an original cannon, and notice the "earthworks"  They were made by the soldiers in the battle.  They cut down the trees, made big "baskets" out of the small limbs, made bundles of bigger branches and piled them all up, covered them with dirt creating ditches for protection and higher areas for firing the cannons.  All very interesting.

I just thought this was interesting.  When we hear about separation of church and state and removing God's name from government buildings, statues, etc., it's just crazy.  Our country is based on a belief in the one true God!

okay...those of you who are familiar with my photography know how I love macro photograph.  This dragonfly was just sitting waiting for me to get a shot of him!