Mt. St. Alban - Indoors on a Wet Winter Day

Starting below ground and ascending above Washington's highest height, the Nat Cat and surrounding  Olmsted-designed gardens and grounds create a restorative haunt. Inside and out, sumptuous design and craftsmanship blend elements of light and flora in Gothic motifs and tracery. Forbidden recesses and soaring spaces express hierarchies in darkness and light, low and high.  I find the place as provocative as it is evocative. Ever photo-friendly after all these years, tripods are still permitted.