It's hot in Washington DC right now. Yesterday the Fahrenheit hit 100 degrees at the airport! But maybe the hottest thing in the nation's capitol right now is the William Christenberry exhibition going on at the Smithsonian.

Christenberry -- a native of Hale County, Alabama (the county made famous by James Agee's book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) -- has spent the last 50 years of his life compiling a body of work that pays homage to the spaces and places of that rural corner of Alabama. The Smithsonian takes great pains to point out that this is not a retrospective, but rather "a survey of past and present work" that includes photography, drawings, paintings, sculpture and building construction.

Sound interesting? Relax, because you've got plenty of time to see it -- the exhibit runs from now through July 8, 2007. You can even wait until the temperature drops a bit ...