The Long Goodbye

With just two weeks to go before the Grumpy Vegan and human and feline companions leave for England, we’re in the midst of the long goodbye. Our first was with the Canton Garden Association, one of two neighborhood associations we were involved with. CGA, proudly proclaimed as “not your mother’s garden association,” was a terrific bunch of people who worked hard on a number of community projects, including the Canton Dog Park (sadly still the only official dog park in Baltimore), the Reading Garden at the Canton Library (sadly the remaining branch of the four originals that operates as a library) and Two Rivers Park, which is when CGA and the Canton Community Association succeeded in converting a proposed city lot from being sold to developers and turned it into a pocket park. Then, there were the home and garden tours and the educational programs for local schools that we were also involved with. Notwithstanding all this hard volunteered work we always made sure that we had a good time.