Pulling out JCH Streetpan 400 For Grey March Days in the Beaches Part Two.

 

I love the Beaches between Queen and Kingston Road with the varied architecture and the walkable scale, you can just wander for 15 minutes and be able to buy groceries, get a coffee, buy books, meet up with friends on a pub patio. You really can't do that where I live unless you live in the older Part of Oakville below Cornwall/Speers and close to 16 Mile Creek. Even then, there are no indie book stores I'm aware of in town any more. Long term this is on the short list of neighbourhoods I want to move to in Toronto. 

The criteria for anywhere I want to live, is to be very walkable as in everything I need can be found within  a 15 minute walk,  functional and reliable public transit that can get me anywhere pretty quick 24/7, a library branch, a decent indie book store or two, decent indie coffee shops/roasteries, and a great local pub or two with a decent beer list. I'm also thinking long haul, I don't want be old in Oakville and I can't drive any more (still a long way off thankfully but wise to plan ahead). While seniors love this town (joked with a friend once, Oakville is a great town for the newly wed and the nearly dead), unless you live downtown Oakville or the heart of Bronte, living the car free golden years deep in 905 suburbia is a bad idea. 

Like I said Beaches is on my short list. Jo-Anne lives up at Yonge and Eglington and schlepping across one public transit system is much cheaper than two. 

Camera: Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko MC lenses. 

Film: Japan Camera Hunter Streetpan 400, D76 1+1. 



501 Westbound Crossing the Intersection The GOOF Sign Late March 2022 BW The Fox with No One Around 2022 BW The Fox 420 645 9 Front Yard Furniture BMW 325i Sedan March 2022 Driveway Between Two Houses,_ Cedar Ave Late March 2022 Wooden Semi Late March 2022 Wooden Semi Late Top of the Stairs March 2022 Arts and Crafts House Late Top of the Stairs March 2022 Beaches Bungalow March 2022 Beech Ave Houses March 2022 Beech Ave Arts and Crafts House Two March 2022 Where Beech Meets Kingston Road March 2022 Traffic on Kingston Road Looking East at Beech March 2022 Kingston Road Bungalows March 2022 Kingston Road Street Car Headed downtown March 2022 Condo Around the Tree March 2022 Front Door Mat Selection March 2022 Future Development on Kingston Road Kingston Road Streetcar off to the Victorial Park Loop_ Looking Down Kingston Road_ Variety Store on Kingston Road Vacant Retail Space on Kingston Road Beware of Dog at 347

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