ajmatt blog

We’ve had a beautiful fall here in the D.C. area. While it usually seems like leaves are red one day and gone the next, the fall colors have stayed at their peak for weeks.

Earlier this month, I dragged Matt out of the house, forcing him to take a break from his midterms and get some exercise. We drove up George Washington Parkway looking for pretty trees, and ended up at Theodore Roosevelt Island.

Of course, the island was the one place in the area where the deciduous trees are behind schedule (don’t they know it’s November?), but it was beautiful nonetheless, and we walked around the entire island.

In our photo gallery, you’ll see nature sitting right beside high-rises and monuments (watch for the Kennedy center peaking through the trees), proof that D.C. is built on a swamp, and—one of my favorite sights—a helicopter whizzing down the Potomac (and this one happened to be a presidential helicopter).