[Sca-cooks] Re: Backyards in NYC

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Olwen the Odd wrote:

>> Now, I never had a yard. I grew up, quite happily, I may add, in a 15
>> story apartment house. (We didn't miss a yard, but we did miss having a
>> basement... Oh, for storage space!) As I said, a wide variety.
>>
>> Anne
>>
> This concept is so strange to me.  There is _no way_ I can even comprehend
> this.  It seems so unnatural..so foreign..like a fiction.  What many kinds
> of things have you never seen growing up?  A bird building a nest, a shrew
> rustling in the leaves, a gecko on a warm rock, the white tail of the rabbit
> leaping, the raccoon scurrying away from the trash.  You never played in
> piles of raked leaves or played slip and slide in damp grass clippings?
> Never fall out of a tree or skipped rocks on the pond?  I just can't fathom
> someone not.  This is something that I will have to reflect on.
> Olwen

Everything but the gecko used to be visible in Manhattan, but is now
relegated to places like Central Park, and some of the uptown areas.
Still alive and well in Queens, Staten Island, and parts of Brooklyn. As
far as I know, nobody this far north gets geckos.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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