Library Lunchbreaking (Vol 22)

In a nutshell: new job brought lunch hours, lunch hours brought regular walks, I brought camera (occasionally), I post photos from those walks.

My previous walk-chronicle was from the end of May when full spring was only just kicking in. This one's from the first week of July, so here's a foliage comparison shot.

A lot of green life in the river as well.

In spring and summer weeks my lunch-walks have been rather short (as I'm already doing the whole commute on foot). In fact, this walk's destination and most of the route fits inside this one frame.

Beginning with a short up-stream stroll on the right bank.

Destination: confirmed.

Observing the pandemic guidelines on the way. (For the time being, the more specific "keep 2 meters apart" instructions have been relaxed into more general "give others room to breathe, let the wind blow between you, do your shit outdoors, maybe" but the signs stay up.)

Also observing some street art. Could be new, could be just an angle I haven't paid attention to before.

Crossing over to the left bank.

Homing in on the destination.

Aaaand touchdown. I'm very fond of this bridge-side nook of wooden steps-decks-benches. On a warm day it's such a great place for doing nothing for an hour.

While doing nothing, I captured some upstream views (gradually zooming out).

Also, observing some random roots.

Heading back downstream, I noticed some broken trees. (There'd been a storm a few days prior.)

I also observed these artsy shadows, and a very calm-decadent cross-river view towards the library building.

Crossing over - back to the right bank.

And crossing the street to reach the town hall square. For half the summer, a section of this street is closed off and turned into an open-air market-fair-play-ground - hence the lack of motorized traffic.

Almost back at work, I had to try and shoot some of that roofs'n'clouds texture that I often notice around that block, and rarely manage to capture in an image.

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Here is a little encore from my walk home. 

The area shown here is what's left of the derelict orchard that I explored some years ago. Back then the area had already been marked for development, but would remain this charming corner of wild for a little while longer. Now the development is on - some new houses have been built, and there's even a proper street cutting through the area.

What's cool is that they've preserved some of the previous landscape and trees.