our neck of the woods

 

The weather has been not so hot the last couple of days, so in the evening we head out for a walk. We used to take walks everynight, but have gotten out of the habit. I thought I'd take some photos of our neighborhood. Our section of the hood is only about  5 streets wide with about 4 blocks long. We are bordered on the north and south by swampy creeks and vegetation. The east side has a road that runs straight to the downtown area and the west is bordered by a large naval base. Most of the homes are pretty small, simplified Cape Cods and Bungalows. They were built between WWI and II to accomodate all the military families that came this way.

North


Keely insists that we start all our walks with a visit to "the jungle" as she calls it.


When I was little, my cousin and I used to play down here. We'd walk down that pipe on the right, hop down and travel down the creek. There used to be a tarazan style rope to swing off of too.

Here's midway through the neighborhood.


I love that we have lots of trees and sidwalks. Most new neighborhoods around here don't have either.

South end

   
A larger creek is behind the tree line there.
  
And lastly, your neighborhood windmill-a full-size, working windmill. What? Your neighborhood doesn't have one? 

 
Keely must stop to pet all the fire hydrants. She had the hardest time learning to say fire hydrant back in the day.  She'd say all sorts of funny things like, "hidrant fydrant" and we used to all laugh. Now she calls them all "fire hydrant fydrant hydrant fire hydrants". She goes on and on with this, laughing at herself. Goofball.

Happy Summer all.