Our Daily Routine

[porphyry]

Throughout most of the Summer we have been without a car here on week days, so my carefree days of trips to the parks and museum were ended. Everyday we took the only walk available to us—from home to the derelict Hong Kong Garden and back—twice: once in the morning and once in the evening, avoiding the unbelievable heat which often reached 100°F. Here is a plan of the route (the house is on the right, the restaurant at the left):






1. The thinner line represents a shortcut through the driveway of the neighboring house that is sometimes taken for variety; the small loop is the path up to the front porch. As you can see, ours is the third of three houses sheltered together by woods from the outside world—even that thin screen of shrubbery just above the house looks quite impenetrable from the ground. The following pictures were taken last July.

Anyone who actually wants to follow my detailed comments on 21 more photos in the series and follow the route in full can look here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/Walk

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

that is just the problem. As nice as our immediate enviros are, there is nothing within walking distance. But we are suppsoedly getting a second car within the next few weeks.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Your town looks like lego!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

City living is nice, too. One summer I was in New York I just loved being able to walk everywhere. Here, things aren't designed to be walked to; one really must drive (although the house I grew up in, even though it was a small town, everything was within walking or biking distance).

The rumor, though--or perhaps it's wishful thinking on my part--is that the abandoned restaurant is supposed to be torn down and some sort of strip mall put there instead. Which isn't much of an improvement, but at least somewhere to actually walk to for lunch or something.

A yard is nice with children because we can just send them out to play; we don't have to take them anywhere to play. And I like planting and gardening, so all in all we like it here.