If you squint, you can make out the podium, behind which is Bernanke's white shirt and blue tie.) None of my photos of the security guard came out at all, making me worry that I hallucinated his great 'stache.
After the conference, I had a terrible meeting on Capitol Hill. Then I stopped into the Postal Museum, which is run by the Smithsonian. It was awesome. I love mail. My Blackberry worked very well when I wanted to take a picture of what must be the coolest mailbox ever:
At the end of the day, Maria and I went to the National Zoo to see the beaver pond. This big, bushy beaver spread itself out on a rock for all to ogle, turning my Blackberry into a beaver cam:
The zoo also has a video camera pointed inside the beaver dam for live beaver action. I could not stop cracking up.
The rest of the weekend was delightful. This week is likely to be the exact opposite, with too much going on for the third or fourth week in a row. I'll try and focus on the beaver cam to get through it.
Beavers get bad press but I read this morning that beavers are one of few types of mammals that keep the same opposite sex partner for life.
ReplyDeleteAnd your word verification on this is hotato - which at a glance one thinks of hot potato. Sometimes they are just like tea leafs.
my brother used to collect beaver stuffed animals. i think i may have mentioned this to you. now he buys them as toys for his black lab pup. my mum mentioned that nikki had a new stuffed beaver to play with just today.
ReplyDeletealso, the minot state university mascot is the beaver, 10 miles from my parents' house.