A sad loss to COVID has been the annual holiday display/train setup done in the US Botanic Garden every December. Always a big draw, it was obviously not something that could be done in its usual fashion. However, the good people of the USBG did figure out a way of doing something: Decorating the windows of the greenhouse. Go on down, enter through any of the openings in the police barriers that surround it, like the one on the right of this picture (RSP)
Even outside, there are things to see – like this bat hanging from a branch (RSP)
Look through any of the big glass doors, behind which are the models of D.C. buildings and memorials that are used every year as part of the exhibit – here’s Union Station, for instance (RSP)
And here’s the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art (RSP)
There are also models of historic structures: This is what the USBG looked like in the 19th Century (RSP)
And here, in a neat bit of recursion, is today’s greenhouse (I couldn’t tell if there is an even smaller model to be seen in one of the windows) (RSP)
But, really, these pictures don’t do justice to the exhibit. Go on down, there was nobody else there when I went, and it certainly won’t attract the crowds that usually flock to it. Another good walk to take . (RSP)
