I made a shocking discovery today on a walk with the doggie and my future husband -- Wilbur Street does not exist. If you look at the complete list of street names in this entry, you'll notice there is a WilbER Street and a WilbUR Street. Since I strolled down Wilber the other day, I thought I'd do Wilbur today. Turns out, it's all Wilber.

We traveled down Wilber to Kendall, so I could finish that street. Where Kendall meets Liberty, there is a little plaza that is home to a pizzeria, an industrial supplier, a clothing shop and a hair salon.



Jackie's Pizza offers "wings, seafood, salads, pasta, subs, soups, side orders, outstanding pizzas, fried dough, desserts, deli specials, deli sandwiches, childrens' dinners, calzones and appetizers." It is one of several pizzerias in the Liberty Street area. I have yet to try Jackie's, and I'm very picky about my pizza. I grew up in New York, after all.



George Radner Industrial Supply Company offers new and used machinery and industrial equipment and supplies.



Springfield is home to a lot of hip-hop and urban clothing stores, and that's what Cabos Flava Fashions sells. (Fun fact: The phone number that's on the sign for the shop belongs to a home a couple blocks away.)



Valle Vale International Hair specializes in Joico hair products. Despite the fact that I've been living here for almost two years, I have yet to find a Springfield-based salon to get my hair cut at -- I just wait until I go to visit my father and get my hair cut in Ilion, where I've always gone. Am I stubborn or am I too lazy to find someone new?

From the plaza, we headed up to the Liberty Street entrance to Van Horn Park and spent a little more than an hour there, letting the little dog romp. He enjoyed some aquatics.



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Into the west

It was a bit chilly today, but the little boy and I wandered off into the west to get some more streets beneath our feets. We turned off Nottingham and onto Vadnais, around Pembroke Circle and then onto Pembroke Street. We turned onto Hamlet and then onto Freeman, and along the way, we checked out Utica and Oakhurst.



Utica Street made me homesick...Not for the house on Melville Street, but for the place I grew up in in Upstate New York. Utica was the city for us country folk... and Syracuse and Albany were the big cities.

From Freeman, we turned onto Wilber, then Van Buren and Worthy, which were both muddy private ways. We wandered to the end of Kendall, where the Age Institute of Massachusetts Inc. hosts two senior housing complexes, the Hampden House and the Chapin House.



We walked around the turnaround at the end of Kendall and then went from one end of Littleton to the other. We're not quite done with Kendall yet, though. That brought us back to Nottingham and that brought us back home.

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