You see, the idea in a house on this hill, is to get a good view.
So not much of the house is on the side of the hill.
Instead, there's stairs going up to the house, which is as high as they could make it.
Then, you put BIG windows on the top floors.
and the garage on the bottom floor.
Well, you paint your house with some bright colors.
This is really the other side of the street, I think this is Utah street between
yes, they have some sort of metal finish on parts of their house.
These buildings are all attached, it's all one apartment building.
And right in the middle is an entrance to their courtyard in the back.
This house gets its unique look from corrugated steel.
A rare field of grass.
There's a school at the top of the hill on the left.
My apartment building is on the other side of the hill, and just two blocks down (equivalent to about 12 stories of elevation from the top of the hill).
These people (gray house just off the right) have a terraced garden.
If it weren't so steep here,
the garden would be gone and their driveway would continue up and be a part of 22nd street.
This garden is in a backyard on the side of a hill.
The concrete wall behind holds up the dirt for their neighbor.
Their backyard fence is along the top of the concrete wall.
same garden, from across the street.
The house is on a corner, this is why we can see into their backyard.
This house must have belonged to someone wealthy a long time ago.
It's the only one on the block with any space between it and the next building.