While trying to navigate streets, Nunes watched a lawn catch on fire.

To intimidate her, she said, he’d been leaving dead animals on her lawn.

Roses are tougher than you’d think — during the drought I spied many residential yards with dead lawns and an old rose bush still valiantly blooming despite neglect and lack of water.

In 1978, Carter hosted a star-packed jazz concert on the south lawn of the White House, where he hopped onstage with Dizzy Gillespie and drummer Max Roach for the famous two-word chorus of “Salt Peanuts.”

Voters in 2022 approved another measure to close it permanently to cars, and it has since become a favorite recreational road, now decorated with art installations, ping-pong tables, a piano and lawn chairs.