Kelli Marshall @kellimarshall

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Damn straight.

15.02.2026 02:58 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

😍😍😍

13.02.2026 00:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Michelle’s was on loan. 😭

12.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Barack Obama’s official White House portrait

So impressive when viewed close up. 🩵 #NationalPortraitGallery

12.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

LOL, had I known this was the situation, I’d have brought different shoes!

12.02.2026 00:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DC trying to show off. 🩵 Just watch the non-shoveled sidewalks—they’re a doozy! 🙄

12.02.2026 00:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks, ma’am! 🩷

12.02.2026 00:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Washington Monument, behind the National Mall covered in snow

The Lincoln Memorial

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC

The FDR memorial, with Fala, the Scottish terrier

DC in February: snow and sunset.

12.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

That’s nuts; it’s not the Deep South after all?! Husband straight up asked a park ranger, “Y’all don’t believe in shovels here?” 😆

11.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FDR’s words: “I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.”

Would be nice if all residents of said house thought the same. #FDRMemorial

11.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Am doing it too, haha. Already looked at menu.

11.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bring receipts. Look at these D.C. “sidewalks.” That so-called Big Beautiful Bill ain’t paying for snow removal.

11.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Secured my timed ticket last week—am excited.

11.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Heading out to see the MLK Memorial. The last time I was here—I think it was the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear?!—the sculpture hadn’t been built.

11.02.2026 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you!

11.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Arlington and DC. May go to Georgetown for dinner one night!

11.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ahhhh, okay! (Teach these people how to use a damn snowblower next time—my Chucks are jacked up, and I’ve been here all of 3 hours!) 😉

11.02.2026 19:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Can I send y’all some salt? Damn!(Also, I did not realize you were in this area!)

11.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a man is clearing snow from a parking lot with a shovel ALT: a man is clearing snow from a parking lot with a shovel

Y’all. Washington D.C. needs to take lessons from Chicago in terms of cleaning snow/ice from its sidewalks. Didn’t know I’d need to pack my waders—sheesh, this melt is messy AF.

11.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1