A bit of bad planning- a library at the end of the cul-de-sac with no continuous sidewalk

A not too comfy bikepath on San Jose Blvd (8 lane street) in Mandarin (about 8 or 10 miles from downtown)

ad for moving company (in Portuguese I think - in front of Brazilian store)

Andrew Jackson (on the horse) stands guard over the city's sewers

another synagogue

Arlington

Arlington

Arlington

Arlington (50s suburbia, now kind of working class)

Avondale (most well off part of Riverside, at its west edge)

Avondale - apts built in 30s

Avondale mansion (built late 20s)

Avondale mansion (from mid 20s)

Avondale park

Avondale shopping center

Baymeadows Road

Beach Blvd., a sprawl street on the east side of town (but this part of Beach Blvd. is not too near the beach despite its name)

City Hall

Clifton- a well-off part of Arlington

Downtown ("Landing" is a shopping mall)

Downtown (people mover in the distance)

Downtown (viewed from Ortega Bridge in southwest side of town)

Downtown - actual apartments!

Downtown library

Downtown people mover (unfortunately limited to downtown, at least so far)

Downtown plaza

Downtown shopping mall on the river

Downtown skyline (viewed from Riverside)

Downtown- Palin rally

Downtown- Palin rally (election '08)

Downtown- sea gulls on the river

Downtown- the great blight of dullness

Downtown- the Great Blight of Dullness (i.e. parking lots)

Downtown- The Great Blight of Dullness, Part 2

Ducks at a strip mall in Mandarin - very nice!

Fort George Island- Avenue of Palms leading to plantation

Fort George Island- slave quarters built in early 19th century on plantation

Ft. Caroline national park - wetlands

Ft. Caroline national park- spanish moss trees on nature trail

Greyhound station downtown

How NOT to accommodate pedestrians (condo in Mandarin)

How not to build a subdivision- wall between houses and street making walking even more boring and unpleasant (mid-San Jose)

Insert your own punchline

Is San Jose Blvd. really a safe place for a duck?

Jacksonville Beach - condos on the beach

Jacksonville Beach houses

Jacksonville Beach houses

Jacksonville Beach near the actual beach

Jacksonville Beach- the beach

Lake Shore

Lake Shore

Lake Shore

Lake Shore neighborhood on Westside (just west of Ortega, not nearly so wealthy)

Lakewood (a 50s suburb south of San Marco, north of Baymeadows)

Lakewood commercial street (University Blvd.)

Lakewood houses

LaVilla- an area that was once city's African-American downtown, later torn down to build vacant lots

LaVilla- another view

LaVilla- Ritz theater

Mandarin (about 8 or 10 miles south of downtown) residential street - note that it actually has sidewalks, unless most Atlanta suburbs this far from downtown

Mandarin strip mall

Mandarin synagogue entrance

Mandarin- a relatively elite part, off Scott Mill Rd.

Mandarin- building I moved to fall 2007 (contains seven or eight units, including mine)

Mandarin- my apartment (2007- )

Mandarin- other units in my current apt complex

Mandarin-my first apt complex (2006-07)

Mandarin: my first apartment complex (2006-07)

Mayport Village residential street

Mayport Village- a fishing village neighborhood just north of Atlantic Beach

Mayport Village- fishing ship

Mayport Village- note the dolphin mailbox

Mayport Village- one of the more well known seafood restaurants

Mid-San Jose

Mid-San Jose (just south of San Marco, not quite as affluent or urban, built in 40s and 50s)

Mid-San Jose: more bad street design

More ducks at a strip mall

Murray Hill houses

Murray Hill houses- my guess is built in 30s or 40s

Murray Hill- a neighborhood just north of Riverside; gentrifying but slightly newer, less affluent, and less walkable than Riverside

Murray Hill- Edgewood (the commercial street of the neighborhood)

my new employer (Fla Coastal School of Law)

Northeast fringe of downtown (pretty dead looking, if you ask me)

Old Mandarin (an area south of where I live; was farm country in 19th century, and still has a few old houses)

Old Mandarin - 1870s farmhouse

Old Mandarin mansion

Old Mandarin mansion

Old Mandarin- 19th c. farmhouse

Old Mandarin- Mandarin Community Club, built in 1872 as school with assistance from Harriet Beecher Stowe (who then lived nearby)

Old Mandarin- Mandarin Road

Old Mandarin- river view

Old Mandarin- river view, mansions in distance

Old Mandarin- St. John's River

Only a couple of miles from downtown and no sidewalks (between Phillips Hwy and San Marco)

Ortega mansion

Ortega mansion (built 1913 or so)