Walking in the neighborhood

These people seem to have folks living in their yard.  It's been going on a LONG time....

It isn't this house.  I just like this house.  Things are all jumbled together in Portland, though.  Homeless.  Nice houses.  Etc.

I like these art deco chairs.

Community garden

Homeless car campers

Homeless campers along the edge of the park.

That tunnel was even more dangerous than I thought...

You might remember when I posted about a temporary sidewalk that is a tunnel with no escape.  I was concerned that if something happened, you could get trapped in the tunnel.  Well, the tunnel itself collapsed, a danger I had not even considered.

Here is how it used to look.  I hope no one was crushed when it fell over.

Around the neighborhood

I took these photos while we were out walking and running our errands on foot.  We generally walk no more than a mile and a half or so from our house and I consider that area to be our neighborhood.  

Bet they love their back yard view.

Camping in the park under the sprinklers

Casablanca lilies in the median strip

Banana plant.

I wonder if they were happy with this change.

One of these things just doesn't belong

These houses are all in close proximity.  Most were built in the early 20th century.  One was built in the early 90's.  The difference in quality and appeal is astounding.  Unfortunately, what they are building TODAY is even worse.

Portland walking... ain't what it used to be

Yesterday we ran a few errands on foot, which is normal for us.  All the development gets ever closer and more intense.  I hate it.

Here is a temporary sidewalk around a building site.

You can't see over the plastic into the building site when you are walking.  It's a little nerve-racking to hear all that equipment so close and yet you can't see it.  If something happened, there you are, stuck in a tunnel with no exit.

It was very very noisy.  John said it was the heavy equipment.  I would hate to live within earshot of it and a lot of people do.

It used to be a food cart pod.

This is Movie Madness, where we returned a video.  Movie Madness rental prices are often quite a bit cheaper than streaming rentals from Amazon.  For example, the DVD rental from Movie Madness was $3.75 (it was a new release) and from Amazon streaming, it was $5.99.  It doesn't make sense to me that streaming costs  60%  more than renting the DVD.  Plus I get to keep the DVD longer (three days vs two days).

This is across the street from Movie Madness where they tore down three houses and all their trees.  You can see some of the trees stacked up at the left edge.

Then we walked on to Hawthorne which is also in heavy development.  It's so nasty out there that it makes me long for headphones and anything to take me away from reality.  So sad.

I guess I am not the only one complaining about the difficulty walking/biking in all the construction.  The city is considering doing something.  It LOOKS like they will, but we shall see.

Neighborhood Walks

John spotted these windows which protrude from the wall for no reason except they look good.

Close up of window.