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15-May-2021

The knight

I had photographed this knight several years ago from a distance, but this time the homeowner was in her garden and told me to get as close as I wanted for a shot (while she kept her dog from attacking me), so I did.

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The Capitol Hill Restoration Society has a "whimsical" scavenger hunt on their website in which you're given a large number of addresses on the Hill (along with pictures with no addresses), at which people have works of "art" in their front yards. Some of them are quite showy, some are small and rather ordinary, but we spent the afternoon tracking most of them down, and these are the resulting pictures. The society first introduced this tour last year but was again promoting it for their 2021 Mother's Day "Tour of Tours," so we thought we'd take them up on the challenge. Which it definitely was.

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

Garden Buddha, posted earlier:

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larose forest photos22-Jan-2023 20:21
That is so cool! Certainly would make one stop and look twice.V
Zoltán Balogh27-May-2021 05:46
What a great and rare find! V
Julie Oldfield18-May-2021 12:46
That is awesome. V
janescottcumming16-May-2021 20:54
That’s quite a big sword that knight has. Seems like he has a big heart too. V
John Hamers16-May-2021 19:37
Certainly a curious object this knight to have on your balcony. Well spotted and captured V!
Marcia Rules16-May-2021 19:27
I guess it's better than Cox Home Security.....certainly more graphic! V
globalgadabout16-May-2021 17:44
home security so curiously fronted....there's a hint of Lego about this fellow..
hayl16-May-2021 17:36
I'm amazed to see what people put in their yards and porches. You're determination paid off to get this knight.
joseantonio16-May-2021 15:57
nice to be able to get closer.V.
Nick Paoni16-May-2021 14:36
Looks like he is standing guard over the place. Nice of the lady to let you capture this fun find.