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.

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[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.