my hood 2

itchy requested more photos of my hood, the east van side. so here's a collection of some of more suburban elements of the drive area, in late winter/early spring weather.

my hood is home to:

a lovely independent nursery, run by two incredibly buff chain smoking gay men. this place is on the way to the house of the college prof i do marking for, so every time i go round there to pick up or drop off essays i come back with a plant. i'm eyeing a monstera right now.



nice community gardens for apartment-bound hippie folk:



trees just coming into bud. spring is coming! spring is coming! i love the way the seasons are so well defined on the west coast. it gives you a good sense of where you and where you're going.



it's also home to monstrous big houses (split up into two or three apartments, usually):


low temperatures and monstrous big cars (i see so many cars that are bigger than my loungeroom):


a fire station (staffed by chirpy clean-living types who are always playing ball out front or practising climbing ladders up the side of the building. they keep a water dish topped up for the local dogs):


some cool graf:


and lots of pretty murals:


great flocks of crows, who fly east to settle here each night, cackling loudly: