The Grass is Always Greener...

One of my neighbors, on my usual route of daily walk, has had an artificial lawn installed. Not one of those sod-carpet laid-in-chunks lawns... this appears to be actual artificial grass, finer and less plasticy-looking than astroturf, but definitely artificial of some kind. It's almost papery to the touch and you have to look pretty closely (it was twilight, and I'd have looked silly kneeling and examining), but it's a VEHEMENT shade of green.

Bringing home to me once again that the planet that I now live on is not the planet I grew up on. There's something very Logans-Run-ish about the time and effort that went into making fake grass that looks so real... to say nothing of my recollection of an editorial note on one of my Star Trek books that the floor of the Enterprise bowling-alley was NOT to be made of real wood (presumably contributing to the endangerment of oak-trees?).