Strangers with cameras

[elizilla]

My neighbor, John Larkin, is like a one-man neighborhood watch. He just came over to tell me that this morning, some random stranger was out front taking pictures of my house with his cell phone. He said the guy took a half dozen photos of the house, from various points on the street, and then got in his car and drove away. WTF?

So we were standing out on the sidewalk looking at the house and trying to figure out what would interest a random stranger. I suggested that maybe they like our maple tree. We have a maple tree whose colors peak very late every year, and it is stunning right now, even as all the other trees on our street are bare of leaves. So we were staring at the tree, and John noticed we have another paper wasp nest. This one is two or three feet higher, so hopefully no one will find it with their head, the way our next door neighbor Bernard found the last one. I guess paper wasps really want to live in that tree. I'll have to let redrunn know when he gets home, since he's the brave one here.

But John did not think this person was photographing paper wasp nests.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Do you have an esp pretty house?

[elizilla]

No. Our house is a cookie cutter house in a large subdivision with four floor plans that repeat over and over. The only things people have ever commented on are this beautiful maple tree, a large rose bush that grows up the porch and blooms in June, and a cat, Elizabeth, who sat in the front window all day every day for a decade, until she died in 2006.

I'm thinking it's either the tree, or someone is calling the township to complain that we had two cords of firewood delivered yesterday and it's still piled in the driveway waiting for us to haul it around back and stack it.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

That is very odd, and somewhat worrisome.

[elizilla]

Yes.

[concordantnexus.livejournal.com]

Do you owe a serious amount of money to a financial institution that might want a driveby appraisal done? (ie one that doesn't currently have a mortgage or lien against it?)

[elizilla]

No. I am 100% debt free.

[schmi.livejournal.com]

How very weird. Hope it's nothing.

[elizilla]

Indeed.

[c-maxx.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it looks like I'm photographing houses when I'm out on a street investigation.

I'm only concerned with street, sidewalk and parkway- public right-of-way- though it probably doesn't look like it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm betting it was the tree.