William Shakespeare
And so it was with our community garden, back when we had a community garden - an oasis drawing strangers and neighbors (sometimes these are the same) together to ooh and ahh and just plain admire. One week there was a bakesale for the garden, the next week it was gone, and since then it's been empty.
Now, a year later "they're" starting to do something with the lot. Just what, I dunno...while zoned for residential use, it's a very small lot, irregulary shaped, and on a hill. Rumor has it that it was too difficult to find a buyer when the garden was there - who would want to take on that battle? So the garden was destroyed - literally overnight - and then the property sold relatively quickly. I've heard that it will be: a condo, with parking underneath; a medical building (???); and a parking lot.
I'd often imaged buying up the lot and designing a home: three stories, with a large open bottom floor as a studio space and for rehearsals, and then living areas up above - one floor for me, and one floor for my uncle, each cut back for a large terrace. But even in my dreams I could never have displaced the garden.
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