Kim and Leung spotted a group of twenty-somethings on the lawn playing Wiffle Ball.
"Or if you're wearing something madras, you feel like you're out on the lawn playing croquet, or if you're wearing something beachy, you feel like a surfer.
There is so little magic in our lives that I'd rather remember a time under the oak trees, on a long lawn, playing with a strange-eyed dog.
Kids catapulted across the lawn playing games, adults BBQ'd, and set tables for dinner.
Channeling Ferdinand the bull, I plunked down under a tree on someone's lawn, played with some twigs and leaves (hope the homeowners weren't freaked out when they discovered my twig-town on their front lawn), and decided to give KT a ring.
And when you just plain old feel that rebellious streak coming on, you can always pile on the Nivia, chuck a tin can in the trash, leave the bath water running, get toxic manicures, grow a lawn, play golf and smoke a cigarette.
From his balcony, Mr. Jacobs can oversee the sweeping lawns, playing fields, tennis courts and swimming pools of North Shore Day Camp and School, and the Sound beyond.
Eventually his cartoons became decidedly American, depicting ordinary people doing things like watering their lawns, playing with their dogs, getting their eyes examined.
In the past decade, however, the trust has undergone a cultural revolution, adapting to a country from which deference had vanished as surely as liveried footmen or dressing for dinner.Today, members are encouraged to feel almost like collective owners of its properties, lounging on lawns, playing ancient pianos or enjoying games of croquet.
But this compactness is counterbalanced by vistas of the distant Manhattan skyline, as seen beyond Rikers Island and Astoria from the shoreline promenade at Herman A. MacNeil Park, a rolling expanse of lawns, playing fields and towering trees with a playground that includes a boccie court.
But that does not take into account the 400,000 swimming pools in and around Phoenix, hundreds of which are abandoned or neglected at any one time, or the miles of irrigation canals that deposit large amounts of standing water on lawns, playing fields and gardens, ideal breeding grounds for Cutex tarsalis and other virus-carrying mosquitoes.
