[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

In some of the old European immigrant neighborhoods in Baltimore, women do the same.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/200...e-steps-powder

I was just about to write about that! You're too fast, Pat!

Here's a picture. Beside Baltimore's famous "white marble steps", quarried locally and thus a cheap way to go, you can see another Baltimore curiosity: painted window screens. Some are quite beautiful and most were painted by generations of itinerant screen painters.



John