A Witness to My Neighbors

I live in a nice neighborhood of very nice houses with very nice lawns and gardens. Our house is a bit of an outlier in that it is one of the more modest houses, and the back part of the property is wooded and natural. A third thing that makes us different is our slightly unkempt perennial garden. Most properties have well-trimmed, boring shrubs with lots of mulch. In a neighborhood such as ours…