ShekarKhand

Today the first scene that I saw from my bathroom window was my ninty-year-old neighbor hanging her cloth on a rope in her backyard.
She has been living in this neighborhood for 80 years! For me who moved 7 times in less than 3 years it is unbelievable.

It was a while seen I have seen any peices of cloth hangged on a rope ! Here we use dryer machine to dry our cloth. (I take my dirty cloth to a washer/dryer three blocks away)

The very first days that I came to Berkeley I talked with the lady. She has nice flowers in her frontyard: "laddan", Monrovia, and a few more. She has a small black dog named Jose who according to another gets a lot of attention in this neighborhood.

The area that I am living at is not really in Berkeley. It is the north part of Oakland but it touches Berkeley. I think it is a very live neighborhood and anybody who lived in Berkeley agree with me. On one of the previous long weekends(when a Monday is also a holiday) one of the neighbors invited everybody in the neighborhood for a pot lock party (where anybody make a dish and people share the food and enjoy spending time, like our parties at Amoo Sharmad place in Karaj). They dropped a flyer at the front for invitation. Isn't it fun to live in such a neighborhood ?