We also visited the National Museum of the American Indian, a relatively new Smithsonian museum that I had visited after it first opened. I remember not liking it much then, and still am not enamored with it, although some of the displays are interesting.

Artist Jenny Ann “Chapoose” Taylor of the Uintah Ute incorporated the names of 456 tribes into the flag’s stripes.

US Botanic Garden at Christmas, posted earlier.