This is a shot outside our townhouse. As you can probably guess, there isn’t a ton of green space around where we live. There are a couple of nice parks that are very close (and people remind us that Grant Park is also close, but it’s about five blocks away which doesn’t sound so bad, but in order to go over there, it feels like we have to make an appointment in our calendars), but it’s certainly not like having a yard. Of course, that’s the sacrifice you make when you move into the city.

There are small patches of grass along the sidewalk around where we live but, as I hope you can tell from this photo, even those patches are being moved out for brick. I’m not completely surprised by this. The patches of grass were actually patches of dirt–not much grass was growing. But still, it’s dirt and so my heart sank a bit when I saw this mini-environmental gentrification going on. So much of the city is concrete. I’ll take some feeble grass/dirt combinations wherever I can get it.