A photo essay.
Editor’s Note: The exact address of this story’s subject has been withheld for privacy reasons.
If you happen upon a peculiar house in northeast Newhallville, you’ll get butterflies—also flowers, fairies, propeller planes, cherubs, glowing orbs, exotic birds, shining stars, climbing cats and whirligigs, all packed into a lattice-fenced yard about the size of a bathroom.
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You’ll also get mixed signals. Signs bearing language like “bless this garden,” “love,” and “welcome” are, well, welcoming. “No trespassing” signs aren’t.
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Don’t trespass, but do look, and don’t be above getting low, where gaps in the lattice reveal some of the garden’s best-kept secrets.
Written and photographed by Dan Mims.
