Preparation & Celebration

Red, white and blue decorated spruce trees	The mall is clean and quiet days before the inauguration	The White House is unusually quiet before the inauguration	There are plenty of portapotties.
The presidential viewing spot on the parade route	Setting up the color coded ticketed area	Baracade is yet to be set up	Stack of fense is yet to be deployed on the parade route
Lots of pins to choose from, but the messages are pretty much the same	Obama hats	More Obama souvenirs	Two rickshaw owners hope to pick up some business
Festive wear	Obama T-shirts	Paintings of Obama and his family	This guy's interpretation of Obama's "stimulus package"
Poster of the Obama's cabinet candidates	MSBNC builds a temporary studio on the mall	Hardball's Chris Matthew interviews Spike Lee	People can see and hear what the anchor is going to say
The train ride of Obama and Biden is tracked minute by minute	A documentary crew	A Ukraine videographer	Better viewing point - on top of portapotty
Another professional photographer?	NBC crew at the Newseum filming the front page news from around the country	A TV crew	An ABC crew
This group comes from Hawaii	Setting up on the parade route	CNN set	International Press area on the mall
MSNBC comes up with a new idea to advertize itself - vest	Students of a Florida high school band are all over the Einstein statue.	The Vietnam Memorial is relatively quiet	Native Americans are here to celebrate
Masai dancers are also in town performing - they are not prepared for the cold weather	Performance by the Masai people at the Museum of the Native America	The beehive style interior of the Museum of the Native America	This guy is happy to see the last administration go
Soldiers are called in to help	Jumbotrons and loud speakers are installed every few hundred yards