Out and About … Privacy and Romance – A Photo Essay
by Elizabeth Eby
What could be more romantic than a sultry evening of poetry on the front porch? Unfortunately, noisy traffic and a lack of privacy made any sense of intimacy on this one challenging. It’s located at a busy intersection within in feet of a stop-light and open to the casual stares of drive-by eyes. The wide louvers of the plantation shutters provide relief and help ameliorate the problems. Across the street and down a block it’s a bit quieter and a poet has put up a 2 inch by 2 inch fingerpost to his work – one of many in Hill East and across the city. For more on the poet, go here: https://wapo.st/3ikMANC and here: https://theclick.news/the-poet-posting-stickers-all-over-washington-dc/
Out and About is an occasional photo feature by artist, photographer, and Capitol Hill resident Elizabeth Eby. She finds vignettes while out and about on Capitol Hill.
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