Door to door to door to door.
The incredible contrast of deep snow, gale force winds and ice four days ago, followed by sunshine, temperatures fifty degrees warmer and dry pavement now beckons the candidate into the neighborhoods of District 7.
It isn’t so much the distance along tree lined streets with every branch ready to bud, it’s the steps up and down from walkways to the front doors of houses built to accommodate a spacious front porch and the gracious architecture of a hundred years ago when people sat out after dinner three seasons out of the year and waved to neighbors out for a stroll.
Those front porch steps make door to door in older neighborhoods a vertical challenge equal to the horizontal distance. Yet the rewards are great: an appreciation for the care and detail of so many homes, many now subdivided into apartments with bikes and scooters parked akimbo in the yards. Even gas cans to fuel the mopeds left unattended.
It’s a safe neighborhood.
A good place to live.
One man wonders how Dane County will fare making improvements and renovations to Veterans Memorial Coliseum and hopes it will all go well. A woman seated comfortably in her front yard with her iphone declines the offer of a campaign handout saying, “I thank you, but I do not vote here. I am not a citizen.”
People walk hand in hand. They step out of their vehicles at the curb and hail friends across the way. They smile at the stranger walking down their street with a satchel, leaving printed election material at every door.
It’s a safe neighborhood.
A good place to live.