And the federal security buildup — symbolized by an 18-foot, rust-colored fence that runs along city streets and through backyards, part of a 650-mile, $2.8 billion border wall — was regarded around town as a threatening imposition.
Part backyard BBQ, part mixer, the crowd at La Placita ranges from sexy singles dancing salsa on the curbs, to couples, to delightfully grizzled Latin geezers, smirking on patios while watching the eternal chase before them.
"The playhouse was going to be in the backyard and part of the landscape," she said.
– "Group Says Newspapers Aren't Dead, They're Alluring" "The playhouse was going to be in the backyard and part of the landscape," she said.
Thousands of amateur and serious birdwatchers will next week spend an hour spotting wildlife in their backyard as part of the RSPB's Make Your Nature Count event.
Designed by Mary Ellen Pleasant, a freed slave, in the style of a New Orleans antebellum mansion, the five bright, old-fashioned rooms -- with antique beds, ceiling fans and porches -- and a Southwest-style two-room cottage, with its own backyard, are part of a 1,600-acre 1,600-acre
The disease moves into suburban backyards in part because the infected ticks are attracted to birdfeeders, as are Lyme-carrying birds and small mammals.
If you're not going organic in your backyard, you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Ms. Markovitz is one of scores of people who have sent in photographs of their backyard barbecues as part of Metropolitan's summerlong project "Around the Grill".
Such is the writer's nature: one who will look down from his rooftop into your backyard, then go part of the way with you, then hear your confession, and then steal your pencil.
