This is the view that greeted me this morning:



Can you imagine working at such a beautiful place?

Mannie

Hey!

Go here

Take crayons.

Mannie

Not quite what I had expected

From my station at the FDR memorial...



this is as close as I ever got to the inauguration.

"Ours is not to reason why..."

Thawing out and turning in, just north of Boonsboro,

p.s.

I did manage to capture an incredible sound from the event:

Mannie

Happy Lee/Jackson Day

Of course, she was the better singer.

Big Doin's Downtown

John Hoptak expresses it all here.

Here's my two cents worth.

I broke out a new shirt, as I always say "a new president deserves a new shirt".

I've got three Snickers bars to take along (working in cold weather is the perfect excuse!).

I trimmed my beard. I want to look my best when the Chief Justice asks me to kindly hold the bible for him.

And, my camera batteries are all charged up.

So I'm all set to go.  A full debriefing will follow here when I get back.



Mannie

mustn't forget to pickup toothpaste