A Walk in the Neighborhood with an Eye to the "Incongruous" (whatever that is)

Over at the blog "Friday My Town Shootout" it's incongruous photos in my town as the challenge this week. Taking up the challenge in a pedestrian kind of way, here are some ideas and some comments from the way-seeking mind.

 

Good fences make good neighbors?

Did the fence come before or after the flowers?

These are amaryllis.

They bloom every year from baked dry ground

Where no leaves show,

Just at Lughnasad, beginning of August.

Around here we call them

Naked Ladies. Does anyone know

Where this name came from and when?

I admire how the spiralled slender stalks

Hold up the heavy heads of flowers for

A whole month or more, with no water,

No visible means of support. 

They shine in the hot sun and don't wilt.

Amazing practice.

I don't think they came from these parts

To start out with, though. Who saw fit

To bring these beauties here?

 

This is the newest neighborhood watch sign.

And this is the Welcome Sign.

Much appreciated by this gentleman on his rounds,

And these ladies, as well.

For our final feature, analogous to the satellite dish

on top of the igloo

over at the blog ....Just Alaska, 

we have the neighborhood yurt on top of the

rockingest solar panel array in the East Bay.

There are more and stranger things in our universe than we dare ever see.
Incongruity is probably in the eye of the beholder, and if we had true beginner's mind, we would never be able to catch that incongruity--it's all just things-as-it-is, as Suzuki Roshi would say.