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I have done more travelling (spell-check is saying it’s one “l” but that doesn’t look right to me and dictionary .com says it can be spelled both ways) for this job in 3 months than I did in my previous job for 3 years.  And next month I am headed out to Chicago,  LA (Irvine, CA to be more specific) and back to lovely Baltimore which is where this week’s picture comes from:

I always clean my horse with fire.

So, I have about 30 minutes to kill after my co-worker and I checked out this fancy art museum where my company is having a fancy award ceremony next month.  It’s actually quite extraordinary (The Walters Art Museum) and I was very impressed with their collection.  Now the museum is located in an area called Mt. Vernon place and the Washington Monument.  Well, not THE Washington Monument (which I visited back in June) but the original and first Washington monument seen here:As I was walking towards that monument I came across a guy in a cherry picker lighting up a bright flame and scraping the underside of a horse.  Not a real horse, of course, of course,  but rather a statue that was in need of a little “fall” cleaning.  Now, I am not sure if this statue is also Washington but I thought it would make a cool shot and I only wish I had one of those telephoto lens so I could get in real close with the details.  In fact, as soon as I saw it, my first thought was, “Hey, there’s my Wednesday picture day shot!”