May 25, 2004
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Someone’s yard in Bourton on the Water Photo and enhancement by Chris Duffy
We passed this yard on our way from where we parked to downtown Bourton on the Water. I thought it was quite unique. The yard was triangular in shape with the ever present Cotswold toad stools as it’s fence and the lovely stream setting it’s boundary on one side. It had lots of daffodils and two red bud trees which were just beginning to bloom. Not very private, though. But then, what have our 8 ft high privacy fences gained us here in America? Many don’t even know their own neighbors, and that’s a shame.
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Another wonderful place to take a ride in your dreams. I have no privacy fence but I do have hedges and they were put there for exactly that, privacy from a neighbor who thought it was okay to let her dog pee on my porch, on lumber there for building in a room and on my bay window. We do a lot of things just because there are some people in this world that are so stupid, all you can hope for is a privacy fence so they aren’t in your face all the time.
Love the pic.
What a wonderful picture of a different kind and time of life when we knew and loved our neighbors as ourselves. :heartbeat:
I love the “Cotswold toad stools.” We are seriously considering not putting up the customary privacy fence, but a shorter picket fence. Not white, though, because I don’t want to keep painting it, but a wood picket fence seems more friendly than a privacy fence and besides, why buy a place with a view if you hide behind a fence? :love:
Yes, Alice, and why have all those lovely flowers in your back yard if you’re the ONLY one who get to see them? With a picket fence everyone else in the neighborhood would get to share them.
:laugh:ooooooh. i like ur site.!!! how do u get the smilies???
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bye!!
I know all these areas, you are taking me back. I am sad tonight and you are lifting my mood. Thank you.