Two more Quilt panels finished -- almost done!

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Aisle Nine

Aisle Nine
Frager's Hardware,
Pennsylvania Ave.

Frager's Hardware is a friendly old-fashioned store that has everything. It  has been a local institution since 1920, and has steadily grown to occupy several adjacent buildings in a sort of rabbit warren way. There are things up these stairs and down those, in this add-on and that out building, in the back and around the corner. The main parts still consist of several rooms with old wooden floors and narrow aisles all chock-a-block floor to ceiling with wares. Each aisle has a white square painted on it with a big red number. These are all worn down, some almost completely.

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Old Growth

Old Growth
Quintessential Sight

Much of the Capitol Hill neighborhood was built around the turn of the last century, and there are many very old, very big trees. It is not an unusual sight to see a mighty oak that has slowly engulfed the iron fence it was once next to, or has overtaken the curb or sidewalk.