I walked pretty far from home for this photograph in a school playground at the end of the longest block I’ve ever seen. Years ago I would never have gone that far north, and certainly not alone, but I found the neighborhood has changed significantly over time. After getting this and using the opportunity to photograph a few other murals in the (remotely close) vicinity, I then walked way back down past our house and five blocks down East Capitol for the picture below. I was playing hooky from work and totally enjoyed the diversion!

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The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is offering a new walking tour, this time featuring murals around the Hill, about which they say:

“Capitol Hill is home to many dazzling (some, quite literally) works of art, painted on the exteriors of homes and businesses. Some murals are well known to the community – but we’ve included them because we love them and the Mural Tour wouldn’t be complete without them. Others may be familiar only to their immediate neighbors. Several of them have been on view for decades but many are more recent, including those that are part of the DC Statehood Murals project. A couple are on the sidewalk. One is not actually a mural at all but it’s art on the exterior of a structure, so no reason not to give it the attention it deserves. … Art is always best appreciated in person; particularly true in this case where the scale and placement of the work made photography a challenge.”

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

712 East Capitol Street NE, posted earlier: