Still another room has been remodeled with acoustical materials to fit it for chamber music provided by community members and a circuit of visiting musicians from other neighborhoods. The gas is piped back to each unit and metered, its price based on actual production cost. The commons area serves many purposes. In it are a playground with equipment designed and built by members of the group and a large brick patio featuring a sculpture fountain at one corner and a sheltered picnic area at another. Playing fields for all sorts of outdoor activities are tucked into open places, as are wildflower prairies with berry bushes to attract birds, community garden beds, and orchard trees.
Flower beds are everywhere, many designed to provide color throughout the year.
Trees of various textures, forms and colors please the eye wherever one turns. The dead-end streets, no longer having to accommodate through traffic, can now give their center lane to a row of stately lindens. The ends of the commons are screened by pines. From one pine-screened end of the community to the other, people of all ages are drawn out of their individual houses into the shared space to enjoy its beauty, to meet and talk, play or work together. Community members share the dream that has created this lifestyle, but otherwise, they are rather diverse.