For the 41st time, owners of homes across Ashmont took stock of their possessions and set some of them in their yards last Saturday for bargain hunters on the prowl at the annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale. Sarah Alcorn, top, was one of the more flamboyant welcomers.

Buyer Emma Turcotte, dressed for a luau, tried out a ukulele put on sale by her neighbor near Peabody Square.