solarbird | drawing lines

Walking around and trying to figure out where former streets went while walking to lunch in the U. District the other day. The one that used to go under the bridge that once carried a railroad but now carries the Burke-Gilman trail clearly used to connect to the straight-line north-south section of what's now Stevens Way; it could have been 16th, once upon a time, and I wonder if it used to be a street in Brooklyn before the University moved in. There are still houses almost on it but not, facing 15th, all now University property.

Also, there's a tiny stub of road that connects 15th to an alleyway behind what might have been a barely-postwar four-plex or maybe a tiny apartment building, now also owned by the University, used for something, but it's not clear what. It may once have been NE 38th Street, as it's in the right position for such a thing. But neither

cow nor I actually knew.

Monday's miles: 12.8
Tuesday's miles: 12.6
Wednesday's miles: 11.5
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1228.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 763.9
Miles out of Lothlórien: 308.9
Miles to Rauros Falls: 100.1 crap! just missed! I feel I should go walk to the postbox and back a couple of times.

Gosh, I had a lot of pink flowers this spring, didn't I?