Capitol Snow

It snowed in the Nation's Capitol earlier this week, and I went out around midnight to try to capture how beautiful the city is when it snows.  After the storm started to break, the sky turned a lovely purple hue, and the remaining low clouds were lit orange by the city lights.  I was particularly excited that I got to trek all over the Capitol grounds with my tripod.  The Capitol Police usually become apoplectic if you set up a tripod anywhere near the Capitol grounds without a permit (and they don't give permits to amateurs like me), but evidently the snow and bitter cold drained them of all zeal because they just watched me wander around for over 30 minutes and never moved an inch.  In fact, depending on your screen size, if you click on the image to see the enlarged version you can actually see two Capitol Police officers looking right at me (consider this the patriotic version of "Where's Waldo?").