the personality of our neighborhood

We live in a neighborhood where cheesy flags play a dominant role in the look of your house. There is a house on my street that always has a flag to match the most recent holiday or season. In October they have a pumpkin flag, in November a turkey flag, in June a flag with a picture of the American flag (for Flag Day) with flowers around it. I wondered how these people would commemorate Labor Day. What can you depict on a flag to show workers taking a day off? The September flag is the back of a school bus with children waving through the window.













You might notice the neighbors' Eagles flag and horrendous blow-up Eagle. Here's a closer look:

















The flag flies proudly during the whole football season no matter how awfully the Eagles do. (I happen to know that they blew a huge lead at home yesterday and lost to their arch enemy, the Giants.) And the blow-up generic Eagle only watches over the neighborhood on game days then he retires to their living room where the family converses with him as if he were an actual person.

On another street nearby this flag to usher autumn in blows in the summer-like wind.

















I could have spent my Sunday going around taking pictures of all the flags people display in the fronts of their houses, but that isn't how I wanted to spend my Sunday afternoon. So three will have to suffice. Instead I spent my Sunday going to two flea markets in our neighborhood where I found lots of cute clothes for baby Doodle, and cleaning two of our three bathrooms while Mr. Doodlebug watched football and baby Doodle slept in his stroller. This weekend went by too quickly -- more so than other weekends. I think it's because we didn't go anywhere.