KAPLIN HOUSE'S GARDEN


Face the house: The garden was overgrown; but that’s a vast understatement. It brought to mind neglected places, back yards ignored over years. The path, throttled by weeds, formed a haphazard trench through grass up to two metres high.
The building itself was a misfit, a huge, lop-sided but solid wooden construction with balconies in odd places and overhanging upper floors. Two thin towers rose from the roof, with slatted windows mimicking the architecture of old brooding churches. There was a fluttering sound briefly, muffled in the downpour. Rain cascaded from the sloping sections of roof, crashing to the ground in sheets. The porch was covered; but I had never seen a less appealing refuge from the weather. (beyond, up towards the house)

Grass: The grass of the Kaplin house's garden.
The grass around the Kaplin house seemed unusually dark. The grass never blew towards the house 

The idea: they three are in the garden of the house trying to go inside. the back door was a simple windowed wooden frame and the glass had been broken. (around the back, rampant growth)

Something hard: they continue in the garden. Something hard is an old bicycle broken on the grass.

Rampant growth: they three are in the garden of the house trying to go inside. the back door was a simple windowed wooden frame and the glass had been broken. (the idea, around the back)

The porch: The garden was overgrown; but that’s a vast understatement. It brought to mind neglected places, back yards ignored over years. The path, throttled by weeds, formed a haphazard trench through grass up to two metres high.
The building itself was a misfit, a huge, lop-sided but solid wooden construction with balconies in odd places and overhanging upper floors. Two thin towers rose from the roof, with slatted windows mimicking the architecture of old brooding churches. There was a fluttering sound briefly, muffled in the downpour. Rain cascaded from the sloping sections of roof, crashing to the ground in sheets. The porch was covered; but I had never seen a less appealing refuge from the weather. (beyond, up towards the house)

Up towards the house: (beyond, face the house, the porch)

Around the back: they three are in the garden of the house trying to go inside. the back door was a simple windowed wooden frame and the glass had been broken. (the idea, rampant growth)

Turn dementedly: (richly carved staircase, cover us, flip)






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