IT was a miracle that a daughter of Harlem got to play on the fine lawns of Wimbledon and Forest Hills, but very quickly it became a bitter miracle.
The temperate zones are also the areas of the grasses the finest lawns particularly are in the regions of moderate or high rainfall and of the great cereal crops.
It showed a large square house, with fine trees and lawn, a lady in hoop skirt gathering flowers in the foreground.
"We also have rich, fine-screened, fertilized lawn top dressing from Old Indian Burial Ground, where the first Americans fought.
She does a fine imitation of whining lawn law-breakers.
In the process, they throw up little heaps of fine soil, which drives lawn fanatics frantic.
"Once considered the ultimate in fine turf, a clover lawn is looked upon today by most authorities as not much better than a weed patch" is how one guidebook explained the change.
If you have in mind a typical lawn of fine and even green grass, then both patches and weeds are going to mess with that vision, but I have to admit I feel very differently about each.
THE detritus of suburban life is on display on front lawns these fine fall weekends, the height of tag sale season here, when we spread our used and useless goods, outgrown or outmoded, on blankets and card tables, priced at a dime or a dollar.
Tickets range from simple picnic style seating on the lawn to fine-dining served amid the vines.
Forcing poor people, who sure seem to "use" the criminal justice system a lot more than rich people, to pay fines for failing at lawn upkeep or driving too fast is not remotely consistent with libertarian principles.
