Today's walk took us back to Victory Heights; we started at the Victory Heights Playground. A brick building on the grounds houses the Victory Heights Cooperative Preschool. I remember there being a cooperative preschool run by North Seattle (Community) College in that same building over 40 years ago.

A community bulletin board contained a plastic bag of coloring pages, announced a chili cook-off and ...

... explained about the mural painted in the intersection.

The playground was in use on this sunny morning and people with and without dogs were out walking the surrounding streets.
Staying south of Northgate Way,  north of the Thornton Creek ravine and between 17th and Lake City Way, I came across a Teen Feed drop off sign. Victory Heights seems to be an active community with a community council, a website and planned events.

I admired the tall trees, ...

... a giant rock, ...
... country-like streets and ....

... the first chicken coop of this round of walks!

The lots in this neighborhood are a good size and I noted a few long driveways leading to newer homes behind older ones. I also noted a "free flower" table and a few Little Free Libraries. One contained canned food as well as books. Another contained stickers. Paperback novels predominated but children's and healthy eating books and classics were also represented.


Leaving Victory Heights, I crossed Lake City Way and walked north along Fischer Place. Here I passed the Northeast Seattle Tool Library. This resource has moved in the past 12 years; it was located across from the Picardo P-Patch in Wedgwood.


Continuing through Meadowbrook, Alicia Park and Matthews Beach, I wound up on 95th where I walked on what looked like a Sasquatch Path!!

I passed three more Little Free Libraries containing a mix of fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, parenting books and a "Canada Reads" book that I would have taken if my "waiting to read" pile weren't so high.
This 5 mile walk was worth every street.




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