The bulletin board is almost finished and not yet installed.
One locking side opens for   pictures or poems and announcments while the other side is fixed and open to anyone for any purpose.
Some Republican reactionary neighbors are curious as hell peaking up into windows for some sign but are unwilling to break their silence.

My wife wishes I didn't start this project. Back on Memorial day behind the soon to be bulletin board I made a small brick & morter bench with a Greek bas relief of the 9 Muses and a small flower garden.

There was one incredible lady across the street who came over to tell me please don't move. She is a world runner who has actually run marathons on every continent on Earth including Antarctica,
She was a Freedom Rider in the sixties whose bus was burned and her entire group thrown into a dirt floor Missisippi jail. This Spring I gave her a tree trunk that I had sanded smooth, drew some faces with stain and sealed. She had the back yard decor for it with a fountain, wood sculptures and natural wood accents on her house.

The overt harrasment by person or persons unknown has come to an end this year, I guess someone has bigger problems now.




As for serendipity maybe there is no such thing. Perhaps its only a prepared mind is lucky because an artistic imagination brings things to life.