Front Yard
Badminton Outdoors, looking southward and eastward from the porch back out to the street circa 1956, we see Ivy Napier (Del Riddle’s grandmother) and me enjoying our somewhat idiosyncratically-proportioned front-yard badminton court. Behind Ivy, the low privet hedge at the front, the big eucalyptus in the vacant lot across the street, and, through the trellis, the walnut tree in the middle of the front hedge. That looks like Hesperus, parked across the street, behind Ivy’s racquet.
On the trellis, at my feet (above), an early stage of the bougainvillea that served as another favorite photo backdrop. And here I am, leaning on the walnut. Used to climb it frequently, if not to any great height. It produced a lot of nuts, but the worms always got to them ahead of us. They smelled wonderful when we’d rake them up with the leaves in the fall and burn them at the edge of the road.

This shot has survived, by the way, as a negative from my treasured Brownie Hawkeye box camera. First one I ever had. It caught quite a few of those great Kodak moments.
Two nuts
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