Photo Gallery of My Longest Mileage Day

Posted by hollybernabe on August 23, 2012 · 1 Comment 

So I walked all over the place on Wednesday.  I broke the walk into three legs.  The first five mile leg was mostly from SE 39th through SE 42nd  meandering the streets (i.e. following around each and every block) from Belmont to Hawthorne.  Then I had to stop to go with my husband to a doctor appointment.

After that, I resumed walking.  The second leg of approximately 10 miles was mostly up from SE 60th down through 42nd and between Hawthorne and Belmont.  The upper portion of the walk was through very stately neighborhoods.   The lower I went, the more relaxed/hippiefied it got.  Gardens started popping up all over the place,  whimsical touches in people’s yards, art, and so on.  The third leg I did after dinner and it was dark by then.  I walked about five miles traipsing the busier streets in my neighborhood, since they are the best lit.

Dante dog walked the first leg with me.

I like the semi-circular porch around the octagonal corners.

Another poetry stand–Portland really seems to like these!

Whoa. Good to know where I am!

My daughter’s favorite haunt, after playing at the park. The Multnomah County Library.

This house had a brightly colored garage, and I like the balcony railing.

Gardens are great, aren’t they? That mutant cucumber is cool.

I always seem to find a purple house everywhere I go these days…

This bike has been parked on the corner for a very long time. It’s sad.

Love that the owner was obviously not afraid to use color on the house.

House the color of the sun

While other houses reveled in their color, this house took a more conservative approach and merely painted the posts yellow.

This was so bright, I couldn’t believe it. It almost hurt my eyes!

That mutant sunflower looks like it’s trying to pucker up lips or something.

Ooah.

I live that window. It’s huge!!

Such a deep purple, it’s almost black.

This watermelon was actually the size of a baseball. Cute, innit?

I’ve never seen a white pumpkin before.

Check out the little statuettes in the grill

I like that houses around my neighborhood are so community minded that they put up community bulletin boards.

The fruits of this garden’s labor–itty bitty little pumpkins. They were so cute! Each was the size of a softball or smaller. I didn’t pick them. Somebody else did and left them here for some reason.

Watch out! Fluffy Kitty is on the prowl!

The little plaque says this is a heritage tree. A Northern Red Oak, if I recall correctly. This tree had to be eight feet in diameter, at least. It was HUGE, y’all!

More of that huge oak tree.

The house the heritage tree stands in front of. It was a big house, too. Makes me wonder if the house shouldn’t a “heritage” house, too.

This neighborhood was chock-full of stately houses like these.

I had no idea what a Vedanta Society was. So I looked it up: http://vedanta-portland.org/

This tree as another HUGE tree. The neighborhood I was walking was FULL of giant trees. I wanted to go climb this one. It looked like the perfect jungle gym.

I like this upper balcony area.

They’ve been working on this house for a while, but now you can hardly see any evidence of that anymore.

Is this what corkscrew willow looks like?

Cool building. Seems like the fancy buildings are always church-related or government related (though usually more the former, not the latter).

This street on a hill has a nice view!

I’m always excited to find a fellow snowflake lover. I was especially excited to see this snowflake lover lived in the staid, stately homes neighborhood.

Soo many of the homes in the stodgy neighborhood I walked through were so perfect, and it seemed whimsy was forboten. But, I did find a little here and there….

This sign was on the edges of the stodgy neighborhood I walked through, just before I started getting to the more family-friendly hippy vibe homes.

Watch out for the rubber reptiles. They like to sneak up on you!

Taking tire swings to a whole new level…

This lending library box is a neat idea.

I think it would be neat to have a house with a deck on the roof.

At first glance, I thought this structure was part of the house. But it’s actually a playhouse.

Lovely cabbages.

Artwork that’s part of an artistic fence.

Frame shop had a neat painting ON THE FLOOR of the entryway.

I’ve seen this work before. Some similar metal sculptures/structures were on display at a gallery in Leaburg, OR.

For some reason, the roof of this house reminds me of mushroom caps.

I like the chairs in this cafe.

I had to do a double take on this car–for a moment I thought the tiger was real. It’s a giant, very realistic stuffed animal, though. Great theft deterrent, I imagine.

Fun sidewalk art!

I love the colors on this house.

Pretty big–compare that to the tire o the car.

Somebody apparently got tired of the feeding the chickens chore…

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