On the train

I saw a hummer before I left.

Lots of weeds were in bloom along the sides of the tracks.  The route cut across the top of the Great Dismal Swamp.  Waterlilies were blooming where there was open water.  More marshes lined inlets off the Potomac.  Then the monuments to Washington and Jefferson appeared.

The last evening of the trip, we went on a monument tour.  And at the Jefferson Monument I heard the first cicada of the year.  A flaming sunset lit the Tidal Basin. 

I didn't return by the same train route because a coal train derailed and dumped coal dust into the Great Dismal.