There's nothing this kid can't do out there. 

 
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I used to brag that there were six playgrounds within two blocks of our front door. Now, there are five. A nearby school tore its sweet 1960s jungle gym out of the concrete and left it to sit like this in the parking lot for days, a weird piece of unintentional modern art (it was later squashed down further by construction equipment). This morning I saw a scrapper trying to fit as much of it as possible into his minivan.

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I hate to admit it, but this molded fiberglass swing is the first thing I really noticed about our neighborhood and the first thing that made me really fall in love with it. The playgrounds within the neighborhood are well-maintained and original to the early 1960s. Yeah yeah, I liked the houses too, but I really liked the swing.

Sometimes I see people with big yards and I feel bad because I can't install all that backyard play equipment for my kids. But yesterday Juney looked out the window and saw two of her friends playing on this playground and ran right out there to them. I realized there are nice things about sharing the equipment with the neighborhood, too.

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