Pebble-dash sidewalk lined by allee of leafless wintry willow oaks along the Potomac River Channel in Southwest D.C. Patches of snow remain alongside. In foreground, at eye level on pebbled Mid-Century Modern light pole, is affixed a red banner reading "FREE DC."
Close-up of FREE DC banner on the beautiful Southwest waterfront beyond the DC Wharf. In background, you can see the row of globe-shaped light poles broken up by tasteful low shrubbery beds. Beyond that, Buzzard Point + Fort McNair, where the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers meet to flow together to the Chesapeake Bay.
From maybe it's last day on view, in mid-February, a knitted "ALEX" yarnbomb tied to the promenade fence. It's black-bordered black on white with a red cross for his nursing service. Behind it, sun glances on gently wavy waters of the Potomac Channel, with the Hains Point/East Potomac Park treeline in the distance. (That's the park where Trump wants to take over an affordable public golf course to brand + gild it in his execrable fashion, ruining it for the actual "real Americans" who live here and enjoy it as it is.)
Get yourself down to the Southwest waterfront--Titanic Memorial's always nice--to see gorgeous Tunisian crochet #FreeDC #yarnbombing ART while it's still hanging.
"Alex" memorial, alas, disappeared this week, but not before spending weeks in the winter sun. #alexpretti
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