Richard and I met some friends for a hike at Great Falls National Park. This is a park about 15 miles out of the city, on the Potomac River, overlooking yup, you guessed it, the falls. It was a beautiful place, and the weather was amazing, it was sunny and 60 on Saturday, and all the leaves are bright orange, yellow and read, with some green and purple interspersed. The fall is really beautiful here. I never knew what a great season I was missing in Texas, this is one of the few aspects in which DC has something on Texas.
It's also pretty amazing that something this beautiful and this rustic is 15 miles from the heart of our nation. It is amazing here how so areas feel so serene despite the location. I feel like one of the major reasons is that the governments around here are very big on preservation, it takes an act of congress to cut down a tree, so everything is wooded and beautiful.
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