Here's some of what I saw walking the dog this weekend

A model train layout in a house's front yard. Not very detailed layout, but cool nonetheless. The tracks are in a figure-8 pattern on a brown surface that looks like small rocks or wood chips. There's a little red barn in in the center and a couple of miniature frontier buildings in the distance

A model train layout in a house’s front yard.

This 10-second video of the model train layout gives you a better view of what’s there.

A little free library built into an abandoned newspaper box.

Terraced hill with cinder blocks supporting the terracing and garden gnomes and mushrooms and shit on the steps.

Whimsical, terraced yard decorations.

Two of the terraced steps, with figurines of a frog reclining on a park bench, little red-white-and-blue patriotic garden gnome, surfin' Santa, and more

Detail of the whimsical terrace.

Lawn display of Harris-Walz sign, pink flamingo, and wall on the background with a mosaic with parrots

Tasteful minimalist lawn display featuring Harris-Walz sign and pink flamingo

Silvery sealed canister affixed to a vertical pole in the front yard, with a yellow sign above reading DOG TREATS

Yes, I gave Minnie one of the treats. She thought it was fine but not fantastic.

Mitch Wagner @MitchW