My neighborhood is a small pocket in Atherton and an unincorporated section of Menlo Park. It’s charming in many ways… smaller streets, big oak trees, somewhat isolated from other surrounding neighborhoods. Most intersections have a small “traffic circle” in the middle, frequently planted with a tree, and sometimes even with flowers. There are not many street lights, so it’s pretty dark at night. I noticed at Christmas that one of the traffic circle trees had been dressed up with lights, and it’s still here in February. The lights are solar powered — a small solar panel hidden in the top of the tree. Pretty ingenious.
