Pink Vespa! And a pictorial tour of the neighbourhood.

[cimorene]

I walked outside this afternoon to go to the library and saw a pink Vespa parked with the bicycles in the yard! I called wax from the bridge to tell her about it. It's gorgeous and retro, with chrome and everything! So I took pictures of it, and then I wandered around and took pictures of other pretty, sun-soaked things in my neighbourhood.

A pink Vespa (off-brand, says wax) peeps coyly from behind the hedge.





Note blond suede seat.





This building, right behind the public sports park, might have a retirement home in it. Or the Red Cross offices.





A playhouse in one of the many neighbourhood playgrounds.





Balconies overlooking the river.





The nearest spot of riverbank to us looks directly over at Arken, the Faculty of Humanities' self-contained complex of renovated antique buildings around a gated courtyard and connected, now, with metal and glass walkways. The red brick building with the tower was a factory in the early 1800s; it's now the Humanities Library.





The boardwalk on our side of the river is almost completed.





Birches lining the riverbank.





A bit of walkway across the street from us with a little "not a through-walkway" sign. Except it totally is a through-walkway. Bitches. And I walk on it all the time, so hah.

Comments

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

What a pretty place.

I really want that Vespa. Alot.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Dude, me too. Look at the shiny silver! And the pink!!

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

God, the PINK. And the blonde seat - I think that's what really got me, the seat. ♥_♥

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the seat is genius. So much better than black or white leather!

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

How beautiful! How near are you to the river? And yes, I want that Vespa, too.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Through the yard where the Vespa stands, across the street, through the playground between two buildings, and I am standing here (http://pics.livejournal.com/cimorene111/pic/00c80sx7/g71) in the not-a-walkway place, which is a wee courtyard, and the building on the right of that picture has balconies which overlook the river. The boardwalk picture was taken a few car lengths from there, on the other side of said building. So perhaps about half a block, only a block full of walkway/courtyard/playground space. Wax said it might be 100 yards? I'm not really a yard-estimator.

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

omg, that is SO COOL!!!!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Keen!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

perdy. and man, your weather looks just like ours. except we don't have rivers here. just drizzles.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Is that like drizzles from the sky or mostly-empty riverbeds which now contain only a sad drizzle?

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

yeah, wow, that was an exceptionally unclear statement. i meant drizzly little rivers. they're not all that sad, but nothing like in the east.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

The one time I went to Colorado we went up and camped on this mountain, at 9000 ft or something. It wasn't very pleasant because that high up it was cold and the air was thin, but the scenery was really beautiful. I don't know if you even will know the place I'm talking about and I can't even remember the name of it, but we saw some abandoned Zuni (?) cliff dwellings, which are nowadays run by a tribe of Pueblos, and - well, okay, that isn't precisely natural scenery, but it was stunning. And it did sort of blend in with the nature. Although, okay, granted, there was a distinct lack of water. (I think the showers up on the mountain were limited to a couple of minutes and you had to pay with a bunch of quarters.)

[shadows-in-mind.livejournal.com]

Turku, right? It's one of the prettiest cities I know in Finland. :3

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The Aura is lovely pretty much the entire length through the city, especially at this time of year.