The story behind these valentines is here.

17. Other neighborhoods probably have strange metal doodads all over their streets and sidewalks, but I’m not sure they have as many idiosyncratic ones. (Usually you see the same standardized ones for water or gas.) It makes me want to do rubbings of them, the way other people do of gravestones.

Previously…
••• Valentine No. 1: Bouquets of joy
••• Valentine No. 2: Tower power
••• Valentine No. 3: Sidewalking
••• Valentine No. 4: Fun in the basement
••• Valentine No. 5: More fun in the basement
••• Valentine No. 6: What’s the latest buzz?
••• Valentine No. 7: They’re all wet
••• Valentine No. 8: On the horizon
••• Valentine No. 9: The women in the window
••• Valentine No. 10: Let a little light in
••• Valentine No. 11: To the right
••• Valentine No. 12: Color it beautiful
••• Valentine No. 13: Behind closed doors
••• Valentine No. 14: Say it by spraying it
••• Valentine No. 15: Outside the box
••• Valentine No. 16: Follow your nose