Christmas Tree Run 2019, Part III.

About two weeks ago I set up, upon request, a Christmas Tree Run around the Mall for today at noon, but that person couldn't make it at the last minute, so I went alone.  I had done a precursor run last week to scout out some promising locations already, like to Trump Hotel, here's how it looked today with a view upward towards the open glassed in ceiling.

A nice touch was a real person sitting in a chair by its base wearing a Trump 2020 hat, as though he was auditioning for a spot in the White House or maybe at Justice.  He had bought a bowl of cheez-its, after all.

Going across the street I viewed the beautiful tree in the Willard Hotel.  It always feels welcoming to stop in that venerable fabulous hotel.

I looked for the National Menorah on the Ellipse but I couldn't find it so I don't think it's been erected yet, although it's supposed to be lit in three days so maybe it'll be erected on that day.  The National Tree was memorable, as usual, especially with the Washington Monument as its backdrop.

Heading over down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol, I went over to the Hotel Monaco, the old Patent Office Building turned into a posh hotel, if you can call tiny offices with marble floors and granite walls converted into hotel rooms posh.  The hotel didn't really have a tree, rather it had a series of small lit evergreen trees which did create a holiday effect of sorts.

Nearby was the National Portrait Gallery which didn't have a tree but there were a series of Nutcracker figures outside in an outward sidewalk Christmas mart.

Continuing towards the east, I went by the beautiful tree at the Canadian Embassy.  Every year it presents the most beautiful outdoor tree on Pennsylvania Avenue, including the National Tree which is, in essence, a tree covered in a shroud which houses the ornaments, they are not hung on the tree itself.

The Congressional Tree was spectacular, as usual.  The 2019 Christmas Tree Tour over, I returned home.