Puppy mills Johnny and Jimmy and Mr. Miyagis house

I just had to get out on a relatively warm day. I took off toward the south and found one of my interesting mid block hidden group of houses. 

Around the corner from Mr Miyagis place I was met with the sadness of the fact that a cool local business had shut down. Johnny Kolache is right next to the light rail station that I'm at every morning and I stopped in a couple of times a week  for some awesome kolaches which are essentially a doughnut filled with savory goodies like sausage or bratwurst or some apple or fruit. The place had a very east coast feel to it that I'm really going to miss. A sign greeted me in October saying Johnny was on vacation for the entire month and now a sign saying he's not coming back.

A half block away from Johnny's former place is a park strip that has land mines of hundreds of piles of dog crap. I know it is there because my morning bus stops me off at the nice smelling dog toilet every morning. I walked down the mid block alley and discovered three houses with at least 30 dogs piece running around and barking in their yards. The yards reeked even more than the park strip did. Seriously, how can people live like that? And treat their dogs like that?

Around the next corner I found a indoor jungle in the now deserted Toyota dealership. About 4 years ago Mark Miller Toyota moved across the street and the old  dealership has sat empty for 4 years. Inside the front window I see huge leaves pressing up against the south window..  It's a 20 ft tall ficus tree with an 8 inch trunk. The tree is going crazy with no care at all. The canopy of the tree at is easily as wide as it is tall. Again amazing what can be seen on foot.

Finally, sometimes I wish I had a nicer better camera with a telephoto lens so I could zoom on a little better. I mentioned how warm it was today and I looked up and saw the open windows of this old apartment building and imagined how similar it might look to how it looked a hundred years ago when it was first built. I wish I could zoom in on the open window. I know there's a story in that window just call me Jimmy Stewart.