Walking along the Book Hill section of Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown, I crossed the street to take a few pictures of this arrangement. It wins my own “best in mums and sweet potato vines” award. (There’s a little English ivy in there too.)
It’s appropriately in front of an antiques shop that sells mid-century modern furniture.
I also liked this planter made from old roof tiles at Marston-Luce a few doors down.
And I love the frog.
It takes a calendar one damp day to declare fall,
weeks of dying mums to second the motion.— Lance Larsen, from “Backyard Georgics“
enclos*ure 