From the Top U.S. Capitol Building—26 September 2014 This is as close as we got to the Capitol Building this trip (seen here from the James Madison Memorial Building—one of the Library of Congress annexes—to the southeast).
![<b>Staying power
Chicago Botanic Garden—3 September 2014</b>
I was pleasantly surprised to see a few hangers-on in the water garden. My lotus research revealed that, “[a]n individual flower from these plants will only last a few days, but a healthy plant can have several flowers blooming every day from June to August or even later.” Nice!](https://photos.smugmug.com/Photo-of-the-Week/2014-Photos-of-the-Week/i-xvwWL7s/1/3bc64e22/Ti/20140903_115045-Ti.jpg)
