I went for a short walk in the neighborhood today, and what a difference some green makes to the look of it all. Even the murder house (third photo from the top - blue house tucked away behind trees and the lampost) is under a leafy green disguise. The property owners cleaned up some of the mess in the back yard, but then the downstairs neighbor got at it earlier today and cleared up the rest, raked up the parking lot, the yard, picked up buckets and buckets of garbage that had probably been around for years. My philosophy was, hey - fill your boots! She has energy to burn, and I don't. She also has two young children who needed a safe, clean place to play, so she made it happen. Groovy.
Hardly resembles the same place as it did this winter when the trees were bare, the snow was piled up and dirty, and there was refuse and garbage everywhere. Spring hides all manner of sins, just like a fresh blanket of snow in November. What snow doesn't do, is provide me with more privacy, which the trees have done very well.
Stormy is enjoying the balcony and the warm sun that finds him there. What he doesn't enjoy is when the birds divebomb him...heh heh...then he runs into the house like the coward he is...and fyi, the birds are small blackbirds, just a few inches tall...they will not be carrying off my 18 pound cat. However after the divebombed him, they all gather in the tree above the deck, and chatter on about it, probably laughing at this big dumb cat...
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