A huge attraction to city life anywhere is an opportunity to escape 'the concrete jungle' and be able to get a taste of nature, or drown out the city sounds - hence the appeal of the FDR memorial. Theodore Roosevelt has the same appeal, an island (if you didn't pick that up in the title there is no hope) on the Potomac just outside Washington DC en-route to Virgina (VA).
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Looking out across the water to George Town.
The bridge from VA onto the island, how beautiful are those fall trees in the background?
Justin aptly dressed with his yellow sweat shirt, to match the fall foliage.
I suppose I could also lay claim to the fall colour look, wearing a khaki green shirt under my jersey (sweater).
The actual memorial is in the middle of the Island, we started off by walking around the outer rim enjoying the scenery and the changing leaves, and interesting trees - look at this one with the twisted branch, isn't that amazing?
As previously stated in the middle of the Island is the Memorial, curved steps lead up to it, with Teddy R. standing in the middle of the clearing looking out, flanked by 3 large tablets stating his stance on youth, manhood and nature.
We left Teddy in his clearing, and headed back to continue our walk around the island.
The next leg was over a 'boardwalk' which hovered over the swampy marshes.
With great outlooks and more spectacular scenes of the Autumn leaves (these pictures really don't do the colours justice).
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| The pink mercy colour in the water is the reflection of the clouds |
The end of our walk continued to offer breathtaking scenes, and Justin once again had to endure my exclamations of :"Oh its so pretty!" "WOW, isn't that beautiful!"
Back on the bridge heading home, we had a beautiful sunset to bid us good night, which is what I am going to do now, its 11h30.
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