why didn't i think of it?

[cimorene]

all year they've been (a) building a building on one side of the quad behind my building and (b) driving heavy machinery back and forth in a businesslike manner, ripping up paved paths and putting down identical ones in exactly the same place (then yesterday some of them got bored of that and ripped up the flagstones on the patio only to replace them with identical flagstones--much more time-consuming).

anyway, the not-unpredictable result of all this was the death/vanishment of a whole lot of grass, which left about half the quad a highly unsightly brown color (ie, dirt). well, recently someone in maintenance seems to've come up with the idea of cosmetics. unfortunately for them they couldn't find quite the right color of spray paint (or spray rubber shit, whatever), so now the quad is partly green and partly this sort of alarming brilliant turquoise color.

great job, boys. great job. keep up the good work.

reminds me of the dave barry article when a little spot on his lawn died, so he painted the grass blades with watercolors and just as he was finishing a pizza-delivery boy drove up, "apparently sent by the God of Comedy Setup Lines" to say "looks like rain." "yup," dave replied, "and wouldn't you know it, i just painted the durn lawn!"

Comments

[loreleif.livejournal.com]

Actually, you may be luckier than you think. Around here, that godawful turquoise spray-on stuff is usually mixed grass seed and fertiliser. -g-

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i suspected as much, but it's funnier this way!

[sirndipiti.livejournal.com]

modern terrascaping has lost touch with its roots...

but then too, a lot of public or quasi-public bldg/scaping is perhaps just a modern w.p.a. project in the flesh

think back to those mountains in the desert projects of egypt