My neighbor is a modern-day Da Vinci. He’s an idea man whose impulse to test the limits of the physical world never ends on paper.
Recently he took a look at a child’s toy from India — the kind of colapsable double helix — and decided to make one in his front yard to fit the community space he is creating for all of us to use.
Here it is nearing completion. When he is finished, he’ll send crawling wisteria up the sides and have a homemade gazebo.
I’d chalk it up to the recession, but some minds choose to create no matter what the economic impulse is. I have a hunch that he’d be making this neighborhood meeting space no matter who is losing money on Wall Street.
