Kendrick Hang

Involuntarily waking up early on weekends can sometimes be a good thing. When I am awake at 5:30 am on a Sunday morning, I usually turn on the radio and fall back asleep when the public affairs programming, which radio stations have to put on by law, comes on. But when the news announcer reported a heavy fog advisory until 9:00 am, I decided to slide (not hop) out of bed. With twilight around 6:45 and sunrise around 7:00 am, I had just enough time to clean up, grab my camera, and get going. I figured the thickest fog would be at the river.

GW Parkway, from the Key Bridge

Roosevelt Island, from the Key Bridge

Whitehurst Freeway, from the Key Bridge

As soon as the sun came up, the fog started burning away really fast, although the fog somehow made the sun look gigantic.

C&O Canal in Fog

M Street

By 8:00 am, the fog was more or less gone.

C&O Canal Terminus

At this point, the sun started to get high enough and strong enough to wash out colors, so taking pictures of the sort that I like became difficult, but it wasn’t any reason for me not to enjoy the fantastic weather. I started walking with my camera in Rosslyn, across the Key Bridge and through Georgetown as seen in the above photos, then continued through the West End on Virginia Ave., down 23rd St., NW, to the Lincoln Memorial. From there I didn’t feel like heading back so I kept walking toward the Washington Monument, across the length of the National Mall to Capitol Hill, then followed East Capitol St. to 7th St, SE at Eastern Market. No farmers market down there on Sundays, but there is a cool flea market where I got to check out some photographs by local artists. If I were to write a Lonely Planet book for DC, I’d map this out as a walking tour for a foggy Sunday morning.