Another Neighborhood Spring Scene

I have always liked this house because of the red trim; the neighbor's tree also enhances the scene.

The Swing

How do you like to go up in a swing, 

Up in the air so blue? 

Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing 

Ever a child can do! 

Early in the morning is the best time to see my neighborhood at peace with itself with nary a soul around.  If the swing were not so low, I'd try it out.

T-P'd Not funny!

Because I had an early morning appointment, at 7:30 am I drove past this yearly "prank" visited upon some hapless home owner.  I laughed and stopped to talk to the young man who was busily trying to clean up the mess (probably on orders of his angry parents).  Johnny, a high school junior at a neighborhood school, was the target by his buddies, I'm sure. As a former teacher of kids that age, I was amused.  When I related the scene to my husband, his reaction was quite different.  He didn't think it was at all funny, considering the clean-up job.  I'd rather see kids doing that, tho, than smoking pot or getting into drugs. I continue to laugh as I drive by since it takes awhile for the clean-up job.  Perhaps I'm the only adult who thinks it's funny?!

And, since this is National Poetry Day with the theme of "home," ...

"'Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/They have to take you in.'"

Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man"

Blossoms

All my neighbors' trees and bushes are in full bloom, but my crab apple trees have nary a bud or blossom on them.  I wonder why? Perhaps it's too early or perhaps I should sing to each one. Or maybe move to Paris?

“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.”

E. Y. Harburg quotes (American Lyricist, Librettist and Song Writer, 1896-1981)