It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

After eating my weight in sweets at a bridal tea on Saturday afternoon, I tried to avoid a sugar coma by dragging Lord Kissington out for a long walk. It was a gorgeous day and we wandered all over the place, heading into the zoo through the back entrance, battling 5000 children to get to the front entrance, and then basically making a big circle and ending up back in our neighborhood. As we were nearing home, I saw a couple of things that gave me pause.

The fake flower garden

I wasn’t seeing this for the first time, but every time I see it, I stop and stare. Next to a small apartment building, there’s a tiny yard/patch of grass (probably just a bit too small to have been snatched up to build luxury condos, which is why it’s still there). Someone has created a flower garden there. They’ve landscaped little circular patches and put up those mini fences that are like 8 inches high. But the kicker is that all the flowers are plastic. Big, fat, obviously plastic flowers. So someone has gone to all the trouble to create a garden with fake flowers. I don’t know if I love it or hate it. As Lord Kissington pointed out, “At least the flowers are always in bloom.”

The double bicycle

No, not a bicycle built for two, but a bicycle of the likes of which I’ve never seen before. It was basically a normal bike, with a whole other bike frame built on top of it, so the rider was about 8 feet off the ground. It was really weird. How can it be stable? Is this some new revolution in bikes that I’ve missed out on?