One street, our street

Today was not the day for another architectural blip or for walking around in the late afternoon rain searching for new and unique blips.

I have been reading about Kendallishere's One Street challenge under Discussion Forums - Blip Chat. The idea is that you photograph a street, any street at all, perhaps even your own street - over days and weeks and months. Maybe I will do it over several years, telling the story of our street in words and pictures.

So this is our street view #1, taken at the beginning of summer. Paladian isn't all that happy about this new direction of mine, because she also wants to do the challenge soon.

However she did admit that there are thousands of streets around here and they are all mostly quite different. In any case she wants to do a commercial area street, a couple of streets over, so I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about going first!

On the surface this seems like a very simple challenge, so I plan to show different angles and interesting aspects of our street throughout the 4 seasons. We have lived in this street for 21 years and are the 3rd owners of the house.

Looking at this scene one would think that there are very few houses in our street, and in fact this blip doesn't show a single house. And yet, there are houses up and down each side of the street, side by side with no vacant blocks.

We are not close to shops and restaurants in the regular sense in that the nearest small group of shops, PO and service station are about 600 metres away. Our street has only 15 houses in it which I know sounds unusual. In this view down the street, each house is set well back from the road behind a line of street trees, then a median strip and a garden in front of each home.

There are many different types of trees in the photo with the large plane trees dominating and gum trees in the background, and a border of agapanthus on the right hand side. I hope you will enjoy the journey with me, and next episode I will tell the sad and controversial story of the developer who gave us this street.
Looks even greener in LARGE.