National Botanical Gardens Cold January Afternoon

For more information
http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-buildings/us-botanic-garden-conservatory

View of the US Capital building from the door of the Garden

Cold Garden in front of the entrance

Only picture with people. Our visit was pretty private



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Topiary

Capital Building

Close up of the hand made from plants Captital Building

Topiary

Brain Cactus

A bud growing from a beautiful vine

Looking up to a window I could see this nice vine growing

Bird of Paridise

Ronald Reagan Building, Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC

Boston Common Christmastime at night

On a walk to the Theater district Boston I look a few shots on the Boston Common.  Here is a beautiful tree.  Also I captured the Massachusetts State House and the Gold Dome.  It was a nice walk.  Colleen had just gotten out of some surgery the week or two before so the walk may have been alittle bit for her.  She didnt say a thing. We went to a nice restarant called Stoddard's, 48 Temple Place at Down Town Crossing.

http://stoddardsfoodandale.com/ 

It used to be an old Corsett Factory.

Opera House Nutcracker 2012

Architect Thomas White Lamb (1871-1942)
Apparently the most profolific of the 20th century specialists in theatre architecture was Thomas W. Lamb, who during this career designed over 300 theatre in all parts of the world. Lamb was born in Dundee, Scotland and moved New York as a young man.  He studied architecture of the Cooper Union and worked in the New Yourk City as a building inspector prior to entering the designing phase of his career.  lamb's earliest theatre commissions came near the turn of the century, and he early formed a long lasting alliance with Marcus Loew, whose success as an exhibitor was closely coupled with Lamb's architectural sucess.  Lamb also did considerable work for the Keith=Albee and Fox organizaitons as well as executing numerous independent commissions.The above info is from the Boston Opera House Website below.http://www.bostonoperahouse.com/thomaswhitelamb.htm