My mom had the day off so she came over to babysit little Dexter. Changed his diaper, fed him a bottle, put him in his little vibrating chair... the works!
Don and I took the opportunity to bum around our surrounding neighbourhoods on bike. We decided to take the scenic route to leva café. We like riding past houses and pointing out the ones we like and the ones we think are oversized and ugly. Mid century modern bungalows, open beamed ceilings, clean design, old houses with character... we love these things. Yucky monoliths that attempt to pass as Italian villas or gigantic plastic renderings of French country manors? Not so much love. Actually, they're not so bad if they're built to be architecturally accurate and if the proportions are right. This doesn't happen very often.
House stalking - it's a weird thing that we enjoy!
Went to the café, had pistacio gelato, an iced coffee, and ran into Don's old physics teacher.
Rode home through the University grounds and took some pictures, check it out:
Neutral leather sandals that go with everything!
The heel of my shoe was sinking into the grass.
I will undoubtedly get comments about how I am gravely irresponsible for not wearing a helmet. Relax! It's right there in my basket and no, I don't like wearing it when we're shooting pictures.
Anybody wanting to babysit, let me know and Dexter is all yours!
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I don't wear my helmet when I am not riding in heavy traffic. (Not that the helmet is likely to save me anyway if I am hit hard by a vehicle.)
When I am just cruising around the neigbourhood, the helmet stays home.
I'm a house stalker too. I also love looking *in* windows at dusk or night. Started with riding up central park on the bus and looking in all the nice apartment windows. I'm also a bungalow girl. There was one in my old neighborhood that I would walk to and just linger as I passed. It was so cute and sweet. I dream of buying it one day when I'm an empty nester ( it was really tiny)
I like house stalking too sometimes, on a summer evening. Love your Summer outfit.
Heh, my brother and his wife have the vibrating chair too, and they had to get batteries from 711 at 5 am one morning, as the batteries had died and they REALLY needed them! LOL!!
I am a major house stalker. Took about a dozen pictures the other day of houses and other things I like while walking a downtown neighborhood in Flagstaff on Friday. Planning to post as a slide snow next week. I love the little bungalows and little yards packed with flowers and shrubs. I am deeply opposed to the garage forward designs I see in most suburban neighborhoods, including mine. I love my house but if I could find a way to put the garage in the rear yard I would.
What type of bike are you riding! It's awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a couple months now, please let me know :P
Cool--you guys got grass and trees!
Cheers! Bruce
Danielle,
It's a Pashley Princess Sovereign and hell yes, you can get it at redbike here in Edmonton! Tell them Sarah sent you and that you found out about the bike at my blog. I like to let them know that all these Pashley lovers are my disciples:)
S*
Love your bike - screams of class and style!
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