It’s a day when all eyes turn toward Washington DC!
 
A new President:
 
 
Sworn in on the west steps of the US Capitol Building:

Living and working in the people’s house, The White House:

 
 
Images:  All from wikimedia, Presidential portrait; US Capitol Building; White House

Get to the polls, or mail off your absentee ballots today, and you can help decide who gets to live in this big, white house.
 
 
Photo credit:  Wikimedia, public domain
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Gerald R. Ford was the 38th President of the United States, and when he died last December 26th, politicians from both parties lauded the legacy left by the man who elected to Congress from the State of Michigan, but not to the presidency nor the vice presidency.  For that, and for his pardoning of former President Richard Nixon (for which he was eventually awarded the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award), he will likely always be best known.
Ford, like all Presidents, amassed volumes of “stuff” during his term of office ““ even though he spent less time in the …read more

Sometimes it really is about the journey.
On our way to the American History Museum on Easter Sunday, we walked by the White House lawn as preparations were going on for the annual Easter Egg Hunt (see photo).
Unfortunately, my invitation to the event seems to have been lost in the mail, so I had to content myself with being on the outside looking in.
 
Photo credit:  Jon Rochetti, c. 2006