A Pause in My Daily Ritual

Each morning I walk to work. It's a daily ritual that doesn't change. Despite the cooler weather, the changing colors of the seasons and even an occasional rainfall, my walk is always there. It's that one part of my day where I can simply enjoy my little corner of the city and get much needed fresh air before I sit in an office for 8 hours.

My walk doesn't always follow the same path. One day I'll walk down Mass Ave. One day I'll head down 7th, 8th or 9th Street. Sometimes I go straight down 10th and cut through Chinatown on H Street. If it's 900 degrees outside, I usually pick the route that affords me the most shade. On mornings like today, I just followed the path of which walk signs allowed me to keep my pace.

The cool thing about this walk is I get to enjoy some of DC's most majestic buildings along the way. The picture above was actually taken a few weeks ago on my morning walk. It was just one of those mornings that I walked a bit slower enjoying the sights and sounds of a city waking up to a new day. When I walked through Mt. Vernon Square like I usually do, the old Carnegie Library just stood there as a testament to the vast monuments of our national city. She's off the beaten path of the national mall and doesn't garner the attention of other more popular buildings in DC. But she's a beauty non-the-less and something I cherish every morning I walk past her.

I haven't found another city on this earth that has left me speechless and standing idly as often as I do in Washington. Something as simple as a daily walk to work becomes a source for so much inspiration in ones life. Thank you DC!

Labels: DC, Urban, Washington

posted by DVS @ 12:10 PM