New Decade, New Chapter, New Hampshire

On the rooftop of the East Wing sits this blue rooster.  It looked very familiar and I learned why.  It sat on a plinth at Trafalgar Square...

Using the fireworks setting on the camera, here is what the fireworks looked like in downtown Columbia, from the penthouse level of Vantage...

I loaded my Prius with three friends from here at Vantage House and we went into Washington DC to visit one of the 15 most beautiful garden...