MAY 4, photo-collage: state visit to Washington, DC

"state" = state of anxiety on re-entering the US in these times

Washington Monument

"bunny", obviously

 

at Yards Park

At the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944, plans evolved for the creation of the United Nations organization that would help manage international relations after the end of World War 2.

Dumbarton Oaks is an estate in the Georgetown area of Washington (our guides knew this area well)

tadpoles in an elegant pond 

at Reagan National Airport:
flight crew of Sparrow Air prepare for takeoff

(To view the final picture in brief video format, click on the central arrow, then immediately on the silver arrow at the upper left of the enlargement.)

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

United Nations,

at first only a vision --

mankind's finest hope.

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles.

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