The Perks

of offering to help someone standing on the corner with a guide book.  They were three, a father, mother and son.  The book was in French.  The sun was out and I was on my way to a destination, but they looked lost.  So I stopped and asked if they needed help.  They wanted to know which way to Bedford.  It’s right there, I pointed out.  Then the man showed me a description in his guide book for a hidden grouping of brick houses.  There was a street name but no address.  I said it might be this way, the way I was headed, but I didn’t know for certain.  I had never seen it.  They said they would follow.  I headed a hundred feet in the direction I was going and noticed a gate to my  left.  I looked into the gate and saw this!  I called to them, this is what you seek.  I would never have seen it on my own.  The first pictures I took were through the closed gate.  A day later the gate happened to be open when I walked by again.