Stroll Around Eastern Market

After having breakfast/lunch with a friend at Ted's Bulletin on Barracks Row, we walked pass the Eastern Market metro station entrance and across the street to the shopping stalls, which come out every Saturday. There is a wide variety of merchandise including framed or matted photographs, arts and crafts, posters, antique books, cigar boxes, jewelry, fresh fruits and vegetables, sausages, mustards, and clothing. I took a little bit of time to look at the booths selling photographs in order to see how much they were charging for matted prints. I also wanted to see if their photographs were any good. There was one stall that had some impressive prints, including one of car lights through a rain-covered window. Of course, most of the photographs were from DC, so I also wanted to see how they shot the different monuments around the city. After strolling around the market stalls, we went to Capitol Hill Books on a street leading away from the market stalls. This place reminded me of Shakespeare & Company in Paris because every wall was absolutely covered with books from floor to ceiling. It was hard to walk around the bookshelves without accidently bumping into the books and knocking them to the floor. The store clerk made certain everyone wearing a book bag would take it off and leave it by him because otherwise the bags would destroy every display as customers moved around the store. Because books covered even the windows, there was no natural light, and the store had a gloomy aura as if it was constantly raining outside. From the street the book-covered windows look like they're about to explode from the number of books in the store. I did buy one book here, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. My friend highly suggested it, and buying it here was cheaper than buying it on Amazon.

Sidewalk in front of Capitol Hill Books.

Book-covered windows.

Clothing stall.

Mannequins hanging on a fence.