Showing posts with label Barefoot Landing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barefoot Landing. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Yard of the Month


One would think that someone who could afford a house like this
could also afford a lawn service...


I wonder if anyone is home.


And as Whatshisname used to say on the radio -- "Now for the rest of the story."   (What was his name?  I'm sure it will come to me in the middle of the night.)

I was going to save this for "Broken" which starts with "B" on Friday...

BUTLER:  "Broken starts with B on the other days of the week too, you know."

Yeah yeah, grammer grammer.  B is Friday's shootout theme.  And Barefoot Landing (which also starts with B)...

BUTLER:  "And L."

...was where we stayed in Myrtle Beach for our vacation.  From Route 17 it is a beautiful looking resort with shops and condos and pools...and several sub-divisions of beautiful large houses, but as we explored around the place where we stayed, we discovered a strange periphery.   There were acres of grown-over land with hundreds of numbered stakes marking plots for development.  

Clearly the original developers of Barefoot Landing had imaginations bigger than their pocketbooks and ran out of money at a certain point.  The house above and a few others like it on the edge of bankrupt geography became worthless. 

And, like Atlantis, the end appeared to have come pretty suddenly. 


I can imagine the day when the operator of this crane simply took his lunchpail and walked away.