An Engaging Screen on the Green

National Mall, July 27, 2009: A bum rain forecast kept us away from last week's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, so we ignored another rain forecast for this week's Dog Day Afternoon.

While folk were gathering, a group in red shirts practiced card messages: Did she say yes and Congratulations. Later a young couple stopped in front of the screen putatively for a chat.

Jay proposed to Lauren in front of the screen and surprised her with a gathering of well-wishers in the audience; she said YES:

A robin and a squirrel:









At DC's Screen on the Green, the HBO Dance occurs immediately before the feature: