Photo of the Day: August 31, 2009

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Sometimes the best part of having all these photogenic monuments in the city isn't the monuments themselves, but all the random folk who come out to do photo shoots by them. Weddings parties, fashion models, tourists from Oklahoma – all of them line up to get a portrait with President Lincoln. Here, akabyam gets a great shot of some colorful ballerinas on the Mall, waiting patiently to pirouette in front of Honest Abe for the camera. EXIF.

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Perhaps they are here to perform a PliƩ. No that is most often done across the river at the Iwo Jima Memorial.

Let's see, that's Martin on the right, Monkey on the left, and NewHCE in the center?

Here's to the colors that never run. May the wings of freedom never lose a feather. Part of me is standing at attention and saying the Pledge of Allegiance IN MY PANTS.

It's a bit drafty, don't you think?

Get back on your pedestal in the jewelry box Liz.

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