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'Natural' yard could land owner in jail By TERRY KLIEWER, Houston Chronicle Lisa Wright makes it a point to stop and smell the flowers every day. She never fails to hear birds singing. She seeks to be one with nature, and the place where she chooses to do so is her own front yard. That apparently doesn't suit the Sundown Glen Community Association. The neighborhood group has nothing against flowers or birds or trees, but it isn't happy at all about Wright's front yard. And because of that, she may be headed to jail. The community association is in Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 2 to get Wright to overhaul her self-described 'natural habitat' front yard to bring it into line with the others in her small west Harris County subdivision. Wright built her yard painstakingly over the past 10 years, starting from an almost bare-dirt yard with one broken Siberian elm sapling. Since then, she has cultivated a collection of red cedars, crepe myrtles and wood sorrel ground cover, along with an overcup oak, a Barbados cherry tree and a Mexican plum. Dozens of other plants, large and small, dot the yard. The effect is a small-scale version of the Houston Arboretum or, as she notes pointedly, 'the kind of yard you see in parts of River Oaks or in places along Memorial Drive in the villages (area).' It's not, however, what you see elsewhere in Sundown Glen, an early 1980s subdivision comprising several square blocks of mid-priced homes located north of Katy Freeway west of Barker-Cypress Road. Most homes have ordinary grass lawns, a few ornamental shrubs and a shade tree or two. The slight, black-haired, 55-year-old defendant laughed nervously last week at the prospect of going to jail. But she said she remains dead serious about what she's doing and why. 'I've never been in a spot like this, and I don't like confrontation,' she said. 'But when I'm pushed up against a wall -- like this -- if I'm wronged, then I'll fight. I'm not hurting anyone with my yard...'
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