We Live in San Francisco

We love our apartment. It's not huge, but we have vaulted ceilings which allows us enormous windows facing out behind our building. We don't have a backyard (the space is a parking garage instead, which I can't really complain about because parking is a godsend in this town), but we can look into other people's backyards.

There is a huge majestic tree (pine, I think?) in one yard that's great to look at. We all know that trees are good for our environment because they take in CO2 and help us to regenerate clean air to breathe. Trees are also great for psychological health, as they also seem to clean out our field of view - too many buildings with no nature makes for a "polluted" view, in my opinion.

Above the trees, and slightly to the left, we have the reason for this site:
















As you can see in Exhibit A above, there is a family (or group of families that lives in the same small dwelling) that likes to dry their laundry outside which, in and of itself, is not such an egregious thing.

But imagine if you will, that there is laundry drying outside, in plain view, EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE YEAR. Notice in this photo, which was taken today, that there is no sunshine. Thus, it probably takes quite a number of hours for this laundry to actually dry. No matter! When you dry laundry irrespective of the weather, day of the year, national holidays, atomic fallout, you do not care about these petty details.

Also, note that, if you look closer at Exhibit A, there is a lot of granny-panty going on here: