(Yes, it’s a word, now. Because I said so. You will thank me later when you have mastered saying it.)
Seen on a rather nice sign at the entry to a tract housing subdivision out in the suburban marches of furthest God-knows-where:
“TIMBRES at Elk Creek” [so-capitalised]
There wasn’t so much as a note drifting out over the manicured lawns, BTW. How melancholy for all that.
But what colour was the notice?
Pardon me?
near Deadwood … innit?
colour … same thing as color
Yanks 
Might as well be, for as far as I’m concerned. Different biome, though, if it matters.
What price, devoured farmlands!
No, no, NO. Well, kind of. I mean, why would the colo(u)r(s) matter? And I saw nothing in the way of any kind of notice, so I’m at a bit of a loss as to what the heck Weeks is on about.
Kind of sad. I just saw a house that was bulldozed by the city. Not a bad area, but because it was unoccupied for 6 months down it went. Before it was plowed, asking price was $4500. I am sure the bank now owes the city cash for the cleanup. Yet they keep building cardboard houses, and they keep getting bigger.
what…ya want to be able to breathe?
You play flute. You tell me.
so many problems…
we’re doomed
ew!!! looky
flying hampster of doom
Hamster, Denny. HAMSTER. No “P”. Anyway, screw that. You want doom? When people muse on the timber I’m getting out of my timbre flute. There’s your doom for yourself.
Hey, it’s Elm Creek, ye bloody cretin. Remind me not to take you hunting.
http://www.khov.com/Home/MN/TECC/ModelsAvailable/TECCFAIRHAVEN/Interior+Bedroom+2.htm
Oh deer.
I’m sorry but this whole thread is misrepresented. The development is “Timbres at ELM Creek” not “Timbres at ELK Creek.” Elm Creek is obviously more pedestrian than Elk Creek. Gentrification? Hardly. Darn someone beat me to it!!
Anyway, it was 7:30-ish in the morning and I was wearing shades just to hide the ocular bleeding. Small wonder I misread the “Elm” bit.
I guess after
I just quit watching the spell checker 
I take it that they didn’t waste the money for graphics on yer sign… 
How do you know it’s not a hampster? It’s wearing a mask.
And maybe everyone is screened for vocal quality prior to buying in that subdivision.
Like the places where you have to be “55 or better” (emphasis mine.) Maybe in Timbres you have to be “A above middle C or better.”
Plus, I’ll note how I like the header on the builder’s site: “K Hovnanian: A family of builders” (emphasis not mine.)
What does it mean when you stress the word “of?”
Oh, but they did. They did. It was well-crafted and, aside from the spelling gaffe, a very tastefully done wooden sign, largish and almost sculptural, of good heft and built to last, the kind that sits on boulders to proclaim the subdivision, the lettering of which was in good-looking fonts and attractively understated - but not too meek - colors, standing out in high relief, with the background left natural and heavily sandblasted to emphasise its grain for a nice rustic contrast to the fine aspect of the text upon it. Somebody in the developer’s budget department shelled out, to be sure.