Sunny Garden

   

    The sun is setting as I walk down the hill, a bottle of red wine in one hand, and a blue haze is settling over the brewery and Toowong and the west. Lights are coming on, and there's traffic blocking Milton Road in the distance and moving slowly along Waterworks Road behind me. But not many cars in these small streets, crazy streets like Zigzag Street, made up of curious angles and unexplained decisions, streets that lose themselves in the contours. That end, and maybe somewhere else, begin again. Finding their way among old cottages in every state imaginable, some confidently renovated, some dealt with cruelly in the fifties and sixties, a few leaning as though they could fall with only a lapse in concentration. (p. 37)

Continue with the Zigzag Street tour.

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