"Out Of The Mountain Of Despair, A Stone Of Hope"

I will spend no more than 10 minutes here at this monument dedicated to the leader of civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr.!

And an Air Canada Embraer E190 on its finals over the Potomac, making its way to the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport...

The monument, designed by Lei Yixin, a Chinese architect from Changsha, stands out for its simplicity and elegance...

Powerful words from a great leader, the only non-president to have a memorial here in this historic city!

The main monument draws inspiration from King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech in which a few lines went as follows: "With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation"...

And King Jr.'s sculpture signifies the stone of hope emerging from the mountain of despair...

A view of the Jefferson Memorial across the Tidal Basin...

You just can't miss the Washington Memorial from anywhere on the National Mall...

A cute little girl poses for a click...

Too many men fail at this test...

And here I am looking for Joe...

And I quite liked this bus...