The press has been out in force around Washington. I was excited to see Alex Marquardt, senior national security correspondent for CNN and one of my favorite reporters. He was giving an interview to a French broadcaster, in fluent French. I was even more impressed with him and wanted to meet him, but we finally had to leave before he was done.

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We went down to the US Capitol, or at least as close as we could get, to see what things looked like. I'd have to say it was an almost surreal way to spend a Sunday afternoon -- photographing the many Capitol Police, National Guardsmen, Metropolitan Police, military trucks, police cruiser roadblocks and high fences that now populate our beautiful city. I'm hoping that we can all come together as a country and put a quick end to this kind of thing because this is no way to live.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

Guarding the Supreme Court, posted earlier: