Walking In Our Neighborhood
We live adjacent to downtown San Jose, in a new townhouse/condo development called Mariani Square. It is part of the Japantown district — so named owing to the, ahem, concentration of Japanese people living here in the 20th century (and still today).
Even though this is “brownfield” urban land, I’m amazed at the flowers that grow wild in the tree lawn, in open fields and just … around the neighborhood. Here are some samples:
And here’s the prettiest flower of them all!
