Block Party

Jim Gupta-Carlson "Block Party" 2013

Our neighbor across the street abandoned his house last year.  It was wooded when he bought it.  He had loggers clear the land so he could build a track to race motor cycles.  He never build the race track and the tree stumps remain, surrounding his gas grill that I saw him fire up once with a few friends two summers ago.

"We don't really do block parties out here," our next door neighbor and son of one of the previous owners of our house told us after we had been moved in for a few weeks.  Almost three years later I still wonder "why not?"  Behind the waves and the smiles there is fear - fear of differences and things that are new.  We may not have block parties, but we do have property lines.