“You know me. I love metal.”

That's what my mom always said. She loved metal jewelry, metal mirror

frames, stainless steel countertops (metal!). Well, here's a whole

tree made out of metal! My sister and I saw it together on Tuesday

at the National Gallery of American Art Sculpture Grden in Washington

D.C. Yep. We were there since Saturday taking the trip that my mom

had wished she'd made before she died almost two years ago. Well, if

mom were truly with us she would likely have done a lot more history

and famous buildings like e library of congress and who knows, the

capital or the some other president related stuff. But Em and I had a

good time. I left some of Mom's ashes at this tree because I know she

would have grabbed my arm and said, "Jessie! Look at that! Isn't

that wonderful!" or something like that.