Views of the Neighborhood – Lawn Ornamentation

~ John W. Howell

Today we are going out to view some of the lawn ornamentation that is around Lakeway. Yes, we have brunch catered by Bangers in Auston. Also, if you want, you can view a video on how they make their sausage. There is a link below. Today’s entertainment will be me playing the wax paper comb since I can’t get YouTube videos to play.

Menu

House-Made Montreal style Bagel 

House-made Plain or Sesame seed Bagel. Served w/ cream cheese & house-made jam.

Avocado Toast

Grilled peasant bread topped w/ fresh avocado, roasted tomatoes, sunflower sprouts & a hard-boiled egg

The Corned Beef Hash Sausage Sandwich 

House-cured 6 day corned beef ground w/ potatoes. Stuffed it into a beef middle & smoked for 8 hours. Sliced, seared & put on a Martin’s potato roll. Topped w/ an egg, American cheese, sauerkraut & Russian dressing. Served w/ a side of spicy shoestring potatoes.

Want to see how it’s made?

Banger’s Bennie 

English muffin topped w/ braised pork belly, poached eggs, hollandaise sauce & spicy shoestring potatoes. Vegetarian upon request

Super Deluxe Breakfast 

Two over-easy eggs, house-cured bacon, miso & cola smoked beans, toast & house-made seasonal jam

Picture of an old time school bus

So let’s get on the bus and go.

Views of the Neighborhood

Our first stop is a couple of mariachis musicians.

Next is the sign advising of the fawns in the area. It is accompanied by a very strange lawn ornament. It looks like a weight that could be used in the water to anchor a buoy.

Here’s the place to visit to raise your spirits with sign sayings, a flag, and some kind of monster on the front porch.

A nice windmill to test the theory of perpetual motion.

A pot, a rocker, and a frog. It might be a good prompt sometime.

A galvanized woodpecker.

A blue bunny and some salvia.

Two more bunnies, salvia, vinca, and agapanthus.

Hanging baskets, wind chimes, bird feeder, rain chain, and gnomes house.

Birdbath, pink bunny, gold bunny (on the rock), vinca, and sea glass.

Solid steel birds of paradise.

What looks like a Halloween decoration is actually a football throwing target.

The motherhouse of all lawn ornamentation. Mushrooms to the left. All kinds of things to the right.

The best lawn ornaments of all. Twins waiting for their mom to come back.

I hope you enjoyed the tour and will have a super week.

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Published by John W. Howell

I have been working in business for over forty years and now have the time to work in special areas of interest. My passion has always been to create compelling stories of fiction. I have authored six novels and am working on my Seventh. The first novel is still in manuscript form and being utilized as a door stop in the laundry room. The second is a contemporary fiction novel of 89,000 words and is complete and I am currently seeking a publisher. I also write poetry but have not had the guts to share any with anyone. The one time I read a piece to a person their only comment was, “it doesn’t rhyme.” I will continue to write and hopefully my blog, Fiction Favorites at www.johnwhowell.com will provide some entertainment and an interesting thought or two. I live in the Austin area with my wife Molly and an assortment of loving pets.

71 thoughts on “Views of the Neighborhood – Lawn Ornamentation”

  3. Dear John,
    we just finished our super Sunday breakfast.
    It’s amazing all these garden decorations. We have them here as well, even in our garden we have a plastic squirrel sitting in one of our apple trees, we have hanging baskets on our sauna, chimes in our fig tree and the deer come to rest on our lawn as well.
    Here are some people having big garden dwarfs colonies.
    Thanks for sharing.
    Wishing you a happy Sunday
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    1. It is so much fun seeing what people put out to enjoy. Yours sound fun. You mentioned a fig tree. The fig trees here were hit very hard when the temps went below freezing. I only see one out of many with some signs of life. Wishing the Fab Four of Clay a peaceful Sunday and lovely week ahead. 😁

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  7. That was a wonderful tour, John. The fawns are clearly the best. I can’t pass up the super breakfast. If you take requests, I’d like to hear you play “Flight of the Bumblebee”

    I hope you have a great Sunday.

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  8. Oh, I love the twins, but the woodpecker made me laugh. They’re beautiful birds, but I’ve had ongoing battles with them — ones I’ve consistently lost. 😁

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  11. Wow, that’s quite the assortment, John! And I must say, the folks in the purple house must subscribe the the theory that ‘more is more’ in every aspect of their lives….😂 Breakfast was delish!

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  23. Breakfast is delicious and it’s quite amusing to see what people do to decorate their houses. I was just at a friend’s parents’ house and their front lawn was something else. I was too shy to take a bunch of pictures while she was on the porch… I’ll have to go back 😉

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  28. You have a real bunny season, dear John. I suppose that an iron ball in the second picture looks like a bomb warning those who are carefree while driving. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Thank you for this magnificent stroll!

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