Peace Train Take This Country

On Friday we did a walk through of the newly opened USIP. the United States Peace Center.  I've been watching the buildings' progress for the last year and as it neared completion it took my breath away.

We're doing the flowers for a dinner next Tuesday and the walk through combined business with my own personal pleasure. Kudos to the secret service who watched me wander off from a briefing to take a few pictures. ( How important to the briefing was the florist anyway?)

 

Inside: miles of limestone and windows: outside: our nation's cherry trees, newly planted in the foreground and  40 years old in the back, combined with a partly sunny day spelled bloggers bliss.

The institute's ambition is as lofty as it's architecture: to promote peace in a time of war.  I think that's a dream we all can live with.