I played cat-and-mouse with the clouds today and took some photos of the progress in the third block of
Capitol Quarter, where the townhouses have sprung up pretty quickly over the past six weeks, meaning that St. Paul's Church at Fourth and I (above) and the private homes along Fifth Street are no longer the lonely outposts they've been since late 2004.
It will be five years ago next week that the demolition began on the blocks where all these new townhouses are going up; paging through the
photos I took during November 2004 while the wrecking crews worked, it in some ways seems a lot longer than that. The eastward view along K at Fourth is a pretty good representation of what these blocks have been through: