1975—Timbaloo
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By this time, we had begun the main garden at right, between the house and Ashland Street. The neighbors said that one of our predecessors had raised lovely roses in that space. Probably the Butlers; I’m guessing the Mahairases installed the lawn that we removed. You can see some black plastic at its fearsome work at far right, where we would shortly put a row of asparagus.
In case you’ve never tried it, I’ll just remark that few garden treats in any season excel asparagus that has just broken the surface this spring morning, snapped off at ground level and crunched between one’s teeth in something like a single movement.
Our neighbors to the north (the green house partly visible at right) were the Pustizzis; the La France family (including Lois) lived upstairs in the home to the east. The elm at right, nearly at our property line, would soon succumb to the Dutch disease, creating newly-sunny space for my most satisfying crop: raspberries. The already-dead tree whose branches just extend into the photo at top left posed something of a hazard until we sent the La France family’s landlord a letter urging him to have it removed. At far right, you can just see the shadow of the grand old linden tree that, every spring, perfumed our air and inflamed Valerie’s allergies with its tiny, white, bell-shaped blossoms.
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