I couldn’t imagine the significance of this street sign, which I only first noticed on the day I took this picture, despite the fact that it’s located less than a block from home.

So I did some research and found that the street was named after Pocahontas Outlaw, born Pocahontas Swinton in 1932, who moved to Washington when she was four years old. She married William Outlaw. Together and separately, they went out of their way to make their neighborhood a better place.

Mrs. Outlaw supported her community in a wide variety of ways, from her work at the local polling place to her volunteer work for ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). It was for this long-time commitment to helping in her neighborhood that her neighbors requested – four years after her death – that the block of 10th Street NE on which she lived be given the ceremonial designation of “Outlaw Way.”

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Tropical water lily, posted earlier: