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This evening we went for a walk and actually found someplace new! We headed south to walk through the little bamboo grove that one household has planted – it arches over the sidewalk beside their house – and then kept going. We took the sidewalk shortcut to a road for which the approach by road is too steep for me, and I had thought that it just curved around to rejoin the main road a block or so later, but then it turned out there were two little side streets. One of them had some amazingly beautiful light purple rhododendrons, very tall. So I learned about a new street, and J (who had learned that too, but didn’t much care) also learned that artichokes are a type of thistle (which I already knew). And we met a nice long-haired tortoiseshell kitty.

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heleninwales

I always like finding unexpected new places, especially if I think I know all the paths and roads in the area.

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eve_prime

Yes! My mental model of that little neighborhood was oversimplified and wrong, and I was delighted.

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kaishin108

Well that's some fun exploring!

I read that bamboo is very very hard to eradicate so I hope it doesn't spread too far.

I love those tortoiseshell cats. That was the last cat I had - in my late twenties. It's name was Kit-Kat. Yes after the candy bar, LOL.

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eve_prime

Yes, these people have a very well established bamboo grove, but it's almost entirely in pots and/or that strip of ground between the sidewalk and the street. I expect they are experts on bamboo. Most of us take great care to avoid having bamboo in our yards!

I love tortoiseshell cats, too. My first cat as an adult, Sappho, looked black when she was a kitten but turned out to be a mostly black tortoiseshell. I loved her so much - she also had the best personality.