The District’s Primary Election Day is four long, hot months away, but up here in Mount Pleasant, yard sign skirmishing has already been engaged. In the race for mayor, along this neighborhood’s long tree-lined blocks, D.C. Council Chair Vince Gray and Mayor Adrian Fenty are waging a surprisingly pitched house-to-house battle.

(The yard pictured below, on Mount Pleasant’s Ingleside Terr., NW betrays the conflicting allegiances of the people living inside.)

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