A New Year's Resolution

At every beginning of the new year, your friends would always ask that question, “So, what is your new year’s resolution?”. Well, as much as a world traveler as I wanted to be, we often forgot how good we have at home already. For example, each year we travel to faraway lands to visit some wonderful museums, but we forget in our backyard, we already have plenty of them. 

 There are hundreds of museums here in Washington DC. How many of them have you visited? I had only visited a few of them. So, it is my new year’s resolution to go visit them as much as I can and to appreciate what we have right here at home. 

This weekend, we visited Freer Gallery. It’s a warm and rainy day, most of the things were in grey colors. But as someone had once reminded me that grey and winter can still be cool and beautiful. So, here are some photos taken from a walk from Fords Theater to Freer Gallery on a rainy winter day. 

You can see the colorful buildings on 10th street, FBI building, the cool door of the Department of Justice, the very wide walkways along Constitution Ave, cool lamps off a building, a giant wooden mushroom, African American museum, the Smithsonian institution castle, colored cabbages, few of my favorite pieces seen in Freer Gallery and finally a small garden behind the Smithsonian institution castle which to me was like another secret garden! Enjoy the photos taken along my journey!

US Travel Bucket List-Top 50 places to visit

Follow travelers, the new year is upon us.  What's in your bucket list? Here is a list I found online to share with you.  Happy travel!

1. New York
2. Grand Canyon, Arizona
3. Disney world, Florida
4. New Orleans, Louisiana
5. San Antonio Missions, Texas
6. Niagara Falls, New York
7. Golden Gate bridge, San Francisco
8. Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
9. Washington, DC
10. Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park
11. South Beach, Miami
12. The Narrows, Zion National Park
13. Sante Fe, New Mexico
14. Pacific Coast Highway, California
15. Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
16. Nashville, Tennessee
17. Freedom Trail, Boston
18. Joshua Tree National Park, California
19. Road to Hana, Maui
20. Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, Colorado
21. Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
22. Austin, Texas
23. Space Needle, Seattle
24. Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
25. Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico
26. Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park
27. Griffith Observatory, California
28. Going-to-the-sun road, Glacier National park
29. Las Vegas, Nevada
30. Acadia National Park, Maine
31. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
32. Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, Philadelphia
33. Charleston, South Carolina
34. Hot Springs, Arkansas
35. Redwood National and State Parks, California
36. Oahu, Hawaii
37. Alaska
38. Sonoma, California
39. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
40. Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
41. Antelope Canyon, Arizona
42. Minnesota Lakes
43. Arches National Park, Utah
44. Kentucky Derby
45. Mackinac Island, Michigan
46. Santa Monica, California
47. Space Center, Houston
48. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
49. Fenway Park, Boston
50. Alcatraz Island,  San Francisco

Garden of Lights at Brookside Gardens

Once again, Brookside gardens did it again! Each winter, The Garden of Lights is a delightful family event that you must do.
Here are the delightful flowers, animals and trees presented at the Garden of Lights this winter.  Love  and love the dragons and baby dragon too!
Enjoy!

Xmas tree at Capitol Dome

Its end of December but the weather felt like spring.  Everybody was at the Mall.  Have you seen the Xmas tree at the National Capitol yet?  I invite you to go and see it because soon it will be removed!

Oh, if you go, you should also visit National Portrait Gallery which was only couple of blocks away!  It is one of my favorites go to places in DC.  Here are the photos taken at the capitol dome and couple of my favorite pieces in the Gallery.
Enjoy!