Our planned intentions were to leave the DC area on our Harley Davidson and go for some beautiful motorcycle rides in the Virginia mountains. However, due to rain and flash and flood warnings we decided to extend our stay one more day in DC. so we left our Harley in the garage and got back on our favorite new transportation method the metro rail system in Washington DC.
National Gallery of Art
I let Alice decide what art museum to go to and she immediately chose the National Gallery of Art. Our metro ride required a transfer from one train to another which went very smoothly. Within 30 minutes we are at our final destination
The first part of the National Art Gallery was an outdoor sculptures gallery. I was impressed with the many school children who were attending and properly mentored by attentive teachers. The children were also well behaved and respectful.
The experience at the National Gallery of Art left us both speechless. It made me feel very humble to even consider myself an artist after seeing what I saw there. Original paintings by artist like Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas and many others. I was allowed to take photographs of the pictures and sculptures with my Nikon with no flash. Just wait until you see a photo gallery or slideshow from me on this day. We spent nearly the entire day there and could've spent hours, days or more in the massive museum and still not have seen or been able to appreciate everything.
I was also reminded how many of the paintings and sculptures celebrated the artistic beauty of a nude body. Never sexual but always classy and artistic. My photography and art will be forever influenced.
Pizza dinner
During the early evening hours it was still raining very hard. I was silently thinking about how much I would love to have Italian food or pizza. Alice mentioned restaurant we had seen the previous day across the street. We decided to venture out in the rain and have a little Italian dinner. The restaurant was almost entirely empty like all other restaurants in our area due to Covid. We were both a bit disappointed in our food. To date neither one of us have been impressed with the food. Perhaps we just have been choosing the wrong restaurants.
