Backlit grasses in the Friendship Garden

Here in DC, we've just experienced the warmest.....well, the warmest everything: spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, calendar year, and annual year. I guess it's only fair that the weather's a bit cold now for early November. Apparently it's supposed to stay that way. The skies don't seem to have taken on that hazy blue of winter though and the morning sun turned the Friendship Garden into a positively optimistic scene. I'm not a psephologist, but I'm going to take that as a good omen.