Someone
on the cluster board must be looking to sell their townhouse, because there’s
been a lot of talk about “more updated lighting” and “freshening up cluster
colors”. I don’t know what’s going on with the lighting, but they’re apparently
serious about the paint. We’ve been bombarded by missives from the management
association to go take a look at the samples painted on two units and vote for
our preferred colors.
So this
weekend I walked over to the two townhouses and here’s their idea of “freshened-up”:
The
thing that popped into my mind on seeing them was the faux “seaport” cluster of
shoppes that surrounded the Queen Mary in Long Beach. I would prefer they paint
my house jungle camouflage than anything calling itself “Boone Nut”, “Weimaraner”,
“Chambourd” [sic], “Dinner Party” or “Mysterious”. Pretty sure I’ll lose this,
tho.
Nonetheless,
I’m not here today to kvetch about the cluster board’s utter lack of taste, but
to tell you about what I found on my way across the common property to the Palette
of Pretension. Because one or more young person(s) apparently has a palette of
chalk, and has used it for the good of humankind. Viz:
(I’m
not entirely sure what that long rectangle represents, but it must have had
meaning for the artist.)
And
today I’m grateful that I happened to cut across the tot lot while these
drawings were still intact, because they lightened my spirits and we all need
lighter spirits.
I
just wish the cluster board had consulted the kids about color schemes. I’ll
take “Tree of Life” or “Flying Saucer” over “Boone Nut” or “Mysterious” any
day.
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