Living in the Friendly neighborhood (named for Friendly Street, which runs through it, which was named to honor 19th-century era Eugene mayor Sam Friendly) is wonderful. It’s a mix of starter homes and fancy ones. It includes two schools, four parks and some churches. Families with little ones walk here. Elders with their dogs walk here. Teens on skateboards and scooters and other weird contraptions angst out, laugh, play incomprehensible music. Some neighbors keep chickens. We’re in walking distance of grocery stores, food trucks, restaurants.
And the gardens. I so love the gardens. You just never know what you’re going to see. We walk by the yard pictured above three or four times a week. Today we noticed that the cutest geese seem to have taken over. I love the ones at the top of the wall, peering down on the others.
So grateful that we are not constrained by the rules of a homeowners association.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 