YAY for kinda spring weather!
March 5, 2008 at 2:13 pmmuseums, nature, parks, weather
In honor of the upper 60-degree days we’ve had this week, I’m posting a photo from one of the best warm-weather places to visit in DC : Dumbarton Oaks. For $8 bucks, (or its free over the winter months) you get to walk around the 10 acres of gardens and the museum, which was formerly owned by Robert and Mildred Bliss. They bought the property in the 20s, and turned it from a crappy, hilly cow pasture into a series of small formal gardens, a Roman-inspired ampitheater, a pebble garden and swimming pool, the rose garden, and the tree ellipse — which is where the photo was taken. It’s the best to just stumble along into the different garden areas while pretending that you are really loaded and this is your house. And you are having a big huge garden party later that night.
As an added incentive to visit, just down the street you can go to the exceedingly creepy Oak Hill Cemetery. If you don’t believe that it is creepy, then just look at the main picture on their webpage. When we were there an old black crow flew right by me from headstone to headstone screeching while it was in flight. ok, now i just got carried away. (back to work.)
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