And they've been and painted the deck today, in the process trampling and laying waste to all the flowers I've carefully planted and nurtured these past several months.

The condo board.

The deck, or front porch, a dull, flat, uniform grey, exactly like every one of the other neighbors. I tried ornamenting it with brightly coloured Tibetan Prayer Flags, but received notice to take them down, and so now it's just like every one else's. And the flower garden, well, we'll give it a few days and see, the neighbors dandelions and weeds have been carefully trod around, mine own have been crushed and trammeled underfoot.