Compare Ms. Lottie’s yard to lizabeth and their neighbors

Ms. Lottie's yard, except for her Marigolds, was decrepit as opposed to other yards.

Certainly they did not fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yard. Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms, clumped together in enormous mounds, warm and passionate and sun-golden.