Christmas Trees in the District

The District is full of beautiful Christmas Trees at this time of the year if you know where to find them, like this one in the Library of Congress, easy to get into, no ID required, there's almost never a line and the restrooms are good.

Take a self portrait on the giant ornaments gracing the outdoor tree on the porch of the Canadian Embassy.

Stop by the Peace Officer Tree outside the municipal DC Courthouse on Indiana Street NW, where many of the ornaments specifically memorialize slain police officers.

Union Station has a spectacular tree in its rotunda, presented each year by Norway, and there is a busy, expansive food court down below and inside access to the Red Line of the Metro.

The Botanical Gardens at the foot of the Capitol has a tree with a Thomas the Engine train running around its base.

You could imagine this largely unadorned evergreen outside its entrance as a Christmas tree if you're in the proper holiday frame of mind.

Or this potted evergreen tree near the Mary L. Ripley Garden by the Smithsonian Textile Museum next door to the bigger Enid A. Haupt Garden.

Inside the Willard Hotel, which has fabulous bathrooms, there are public alcoves decorated with little trimmed trees where upon glancing up at a portrait on the wall, you'd see you are in the presence of Abe Lincoln and his sons.