Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens is the northern site of Anacostia Park. It is divided into three distinct management units with different policies based on the resources protected by each unit.

A homesick war veteran from Maine started the Aquatic Gardens as a hobby with a few wild waterlilies in a single pond. Time and diligence turned a trickle of curious visitors to a stream of customers for a growing commercial garden of twenty eight ponds. The dazzling displays were purchased in 1938 by the Federal Government to become the only National Park to display cultivated aquatic plants.

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Ruby Ellenby had her red party dress on to celebrate her first photography exhibition. A few minutes into the opening, she dipped into the party favors. Cupcake in her hand, her mouth was ringed by pink frosting.

Ruby is 3 years old. The exhibition of her work includes 22 photos, most taken in San Francisco‘s Dogpatch and Mission Bay neighborhoods near her home. She used three cameras: Her own VTech kids’ camera, a Nikon Coolpix, and Mom and Dad’s iPhones.

“It began,” says her mom, Jeanne Ellenby, the day Ruby said, “Mommy, can I see your camera?”

The photos are from a kid’s-eye view: a leaf on the street; a random letter on a sidewalk; from under the dinner table at Thanksgiving; bare branches overhead. It helps that both parents are photographers.

“One thing I learned from watching my daughter is you shoot what is close to you,” said Peter Ellenby, who along with his wife specializes in music photography. “Ruby is close to the ground, so she shoots a lot of things at that level.”

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