MY ROAD - What does your's look like?

My road looks a lot like that. It's the stuff on and around it that looks different.

You mean you have tarmac in the USA?

MARVELLOUS!

Since it's too expensive to engage lighwizzard after 22:00 h for lightening up, I just give a view from above:

I regret to report that I'm not wealthy enough to own a road.

My road looks like a big, long hole, and will for another month or so. Across the street I can see the park that leads into the zoo. On the weekends, it fills up with bitchy breeders with their broods of brats, shrieking and interfering with traffic and generally making nuisances of themselves.

When the tractors and big shovels are shut down in the evening you can hear the hippos bellowing.

This is part of my street....

I've lived on a lot of different roads... heh. I'll post two photos of the present road, and another of a road when I was a child. I've more photos of more roads, but they're not on photobucket yet.


I live in the second townhouse from the right, the one with the tacky roof-ette, which has since been hauled away. Photo taken early evening before trash day.





View from the front yard -




This is only the second housing tract I've lived in in my longish life, the first time being when I babysat a large tract house for sale when I first moved to Eureka. That had a sequoia grove in the backyard... ugly 4 bedroom house that I only stayed in about six weeks, since once I unpacked and put paintings up, the house, which hadn't sold for three years, sold to the first people who looked at it. Grrrr.


Anyway, though the townhouse is a lemon, don't get me started, I like the neighborhood and my neighbors, and even like the lemony townhouse. Only real complaint is my larger one in general that many cities aren't planned well and Albuquerque is a prime example of sucky planning.



Skipping backwards to my visit at the Chicago a2k get together with an old childhood friend to the old neighborhood - our street in Evanston, now looking much the same as it did in the fifties. Our house doesn't show there, is to the left.

Oh, oh, oh, there are those jacarandas again, sigh...




The bellowing of hippos...
I've lived around squawking night herons, but hippos!!!! fantastic.

Wow! This is why I started this thread, just to see all the different styles and trees etc.
It brings it home to me that we all congregate here together in this little bubble, but are thousands of miles apart. Mind boggling, really.

Lovely pics, so far. Osso, your area looks so different to anything that I would see in England. It just looks sort of Spanish? It also looks very hot and dry.

I just love Jacarandas. I wish they would grow here. My sis had two in her back garden in Perth, where the Pink 'n' Grey's (parrots) used to congregate in the mornings, waiting for their fruit and nuts.

Patio....we don't get Hippos here, but my road (down at the end in the photo) leads into a 180 acre park/woodland, and there are loads of Muntjack deer (barking deer) that make the most unholy noise at night, during the rutting season.

Love it so far.........can't wait for the Aussies to turn up, or Satt with one of his excellent pics.

Yes, hot and dry, but I gather more humid each summer. Went to a local rather with-it nursery recently, and the owner explained that he was dealing with fungus on a lot of plants.


I've recently moved from the opposite, basically a redwood forest area with, at least where I was, temps rarely below freezing, and rarely about 65 degrees F. High air moisture... mold ready to pounce, hydrangeas gorgeous.

Kind of a slapshot to the senses, this move.

My primary sensibility is from/about areas like CJane is showing, in southern California - not like the northwest (at the top of coastal northern Cal), though sometimes like the southwest (New Mexico)

The Lord's street is indeed Very Fancy...

How many roads must a man live on?

The lord's street looks too-too-tudor, but for real, or a much higher level of the form. Tootootudor was a snide remark we used to make about some recent southern california houses... Some areas of LA were great for aping aspects of architectures past, and some of those were really good buildings.
I don't mean to sound snide myself, I like play in architecture.

My own area is faux Territorial housing of the cheapest manifestation, pfui.
Back with a link on territorial.

Tootootudor, I love it!

Actually, it's only that one on the left that is tudor "style", all the others in the road conforming to 1930's "metroland" - (see Sir John Betjemen film), deco(ish) style.

The whole estate was built between 1933-39.


(G'night)

I live on a crap Avenue, in a crap house, that I pay crap loads of rent on!

(sniff)

(who cares?)

This is not my actual road, but it sure looks like it:




And about 5 months out of the year it looks like this:

Rub it in, why dontcha!

The lord's street looks too-too-tudor, but for real, or a much higher level of the form. Tootootudor was a snide remark we used to make about some recent southern california houses... Some areas of LA were great for aping aspects of architectures past, and some of those were really good buildings.
I don't mean to sound snide myself, I like play in architecture.

My own area is faux Territorial housing of the cheapest manifestation, pfui.
Back with a link on territorial.