Well, I waited six months to get a haircut, so I suppose I’m not one to criticize a hedge. But I’m confused. Wouldn’t you think that the so-called most beautiful city in the world would do a little more to keep itself presentable? I know my mother would.
Granted, we all know how you just go along thinking everything is fine… you’ll fix your hair/mop the floor/write that thank-you note just any day now…and then suddenly something snaps and you realize that your hair is a freaking mess, etc. etc. The jig is up.
In the case of this hedge, nobody seems to be responding to the jig. Maybe wild-haired hedges are just the latest trend, or something related to the Biennale which is just through the park ahead. But company’s coming to town (and some is already here — I’ve seen the yachts). Tomorrow is the first day of the Venice Film Festival, and if there were ever a time to trim that hedge, I’d think the time would be now. Actually, yesterday. ACTUALLY, a week ago.
But what, as I often ask myself, do I know? I never trimmed my bangs to suit my mother, so it’s clearly just as well I was never responsible for a hedge.
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If I have a complaint about the state of repair in the so-called most beautiful city in the world, it’s with IUAV and the Tolentino entrance. The last time I was there the submerged portico was full of dead leaves and murky water. You’d think Venice’s architectural university would show more respect to Carlo Scarpa!
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But supplies of respect are running out, and no new shipments are have been ordered.
Delightful read for a warmish afternoon in California.
I like your hair just the way it is…..it’s so you….
You, perhaps (and thank you), but never my sainted mother. Bring on the weed-whackers…
Thank you so much. I wish you could tell my mother that!
Maybe it’s the hedge? Maybe, after all this heat (and visitors), it’s just pulling a hissyfit and won’t let itself be trimmed? Perhaps it snaps at anyone with a hedge cutter coming anywhere near? We all have our moments…..
It still looks a whole lot better than my hedges! I seem to be in a permanent losing battle with our back garden.
Ella B
I think you should get a few goats or sheep.