BGuthrie Photos: DC -- George Mason Memorial

DC -- George Mason Memorial:

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1. MASON_040329_08.JPG: This is Fountain Number 4. A sign here says: Fountain #4 is all that remains of the formal gardens planted here in 1905-06. These gardens once covered fifty acres and were part of the beautification efforts of First Lady Helen Taft. The other gardens were removed when the 14th Street Bridge was built in the late 1940's. Today, the garden is nicknamed "the pansy bed" for the thousands of pansies that bloom here in the spring. They are complemented by spring flowering bulbs and nearby magnolias and forsythias. In late spring, the pansies are replaced by flowering annuals. Tropical water lilies provided by Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens are grown in the pool.
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Wikipedia Description: George Mason Memorial
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The George Mason Memorial, located in East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., commemorates the often neglected contributions of an important Founding Father of the United States. George Mason was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights and served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Perhaps Mason's greatest act was withholding his signature from the United States Constitution because it did not abolish the slave trade and lacked necessary protection for the individual from the Federal Government. He was sometimes known as "The Reluctant Statesman," which was also the title of a biography written about him by Robert A Rutland.

The memorial was authorized by Public Law 101-358 on August 10, 1990, to be developed by the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall. A site near the Thomas Jefferson Memorial was selected. The design features a 72 foot long stone wall with a one-third larger than life sized statue of a sitting Mason, his legs crossed, and a circular pool. The architect was Faye B. Harwell and the sculptor Wendy M. Ross. After an October 18, 2000 groundbreaking, it was dedicated on April 9, 2002. It is managed by National Mall and Memorial Parks.
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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