Self Portrait Tuesday

Challenge:

take a picture of yourself out and about in your neighborhood, your town, your city. do you live near a landmark or a setting that has ever been used by Hollywood? would we recognize it? does it have historic significance to your community? has it become more popular since it was featured on the big screen? if no movie locations come to mind, how about showing us a significant landmark from your area? get out there and get creative!

Ok, so I feel like I may have been one person who had too many too choose from. I thought and thought.
You might have thought I would do a photo like this.


A silly photo of me in front of the Washington Monument or Jefferson Memorial. They have both have historical significance, made it to Hollywood, and are a landmark for where I live. But my creative mind would not let me do the obvious and in years to come when reading my blog book, I wanted it to be something that is a remembrance of my time here.

yet, I must say this challenge encouraged me to start a "Me in D.C." smugmug gallery that I hope to fill of me in front of all the monuments.


So then it hit me! Me in front of a place that has been in the media more than any place in D.C. the last month. It has personal significance to me. It will definitely remind me of our time here. It is not really a symbol on the big screen, but how could I not pass this up?

so any guesses????

Yep! it is me in front of Walter Reed Medical Center. Who know the place my husband works would be the most talked about news item of late. (if you don't know what I am talking about, I encourage you to subscribe to your newspaper, listen to the radio, hit CNN.com or watch the news... ok so that was a little sarcastic, but still true)

We have had a lot of phone calls of wanting to the know the scoop and if this is affecting Jeff at all. The answer is no, but I will tell you everyone is on their toes for sure. It is kind of sad of all the negative press that has come out of it, because the Medical Staff really do a great job and are so emotional about their work. It has been an amazing experience for Jeff to be here. He sees many wounded solders as well as famous politicians that I am not allowed to tell you about. He always has a interesting story.

The Army paid for graduate school and we owe them 4 years. There have been times we have questioned this decision. But since moving here we can only feel it was a blessing 11 years in the making, to bring our family to this historical place, have wonderful experiences and meet some incredible people.

Thanks again Eleanor, can't wait for next week.

Seriously, what is keeping everyone from doing this every Tuesday!