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

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

It all looks much greener in the July photos. I don't like the sound of the heat. But why exactly do you want to visit this abandonned resaurant? To see how the cockroaches are getting on?

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

By a sheer co-incidence, today we ventured down to the Chinese Resturant for the first time with M. walking under own power. The cock-roach civilization seems to have come to an end.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

You appear to live in a vast house on the edge of a sinister suburban wasteland. Is this an accurate assessment?

What sort of freakshow is walmart :-)