Facades

Blog 59 ... 

Walk out in a neighborhood or a nearby subdivision.  Are you walking out now?  Look around as you walk.  Take note of homes and houses' facades.  'Wondered about home owners and renters' decision rationales for what goes in front of their homes? Look out there.  Notice two Adirondack seats crowd that very narrow porch and front door.  Why are they there?  At the house next to it, a porcelain dragon guards a flower garden.  Plaster geese pretend to feed from the ground across from it, and behind it, a swan pottery holds roses.   Again, what’s the thought?  Keep walking.  Observe more what's out in the yards.  A tree swing tells about a child or children actively at play after school, on lazy or carefree afternoon weekends.  We don’t know for sure.   While you pass some well-planned landscaping, many other well-intentioned gardens pitifully scream of disappointment.  You couldn't escape the unattended trees, bushes and flower plots filled with weeds tolerated or hated by passers-by and close neighbors.  Facades are like life dreams and goals that either announces human failure or celebration!  What does your facade tell the world?