Showing posts with label doors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doors. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

London Details



We ate a lot of salad in London, since we had been too nervous to eat it in India.
The vegetables there were wonderful, but we only ate them cooked.


In London, a brisk wind batted the clouds through a blue sky.
(Tottenhan Court Road opposite M&S.)


A white on white window near Great Ormond Street.
I was walking to the Persephone Bookshop on Lamb's Conduit Street
where I bought four books, even though I'm rather fierce about carrying heavy luggage.
I particularly recommend Tea with Mr.Rochester by Frances Towers.
If you don't know Persephone Books, go there now.


What a door! Window frame, railings, fanlight, side alley.
The very apotheosis of door-ness.


This doorway with primroses and black plastic bin-bag looks as if someone lives there.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Still Cold: Getting Bored of Winter


All very picturesque and so forth but stupidly cold. At 8am this morning 19'F.
Glad I'm not out in it.


So very clear and bright.


All the English blogs are full of lovely and amazing pictures.
 I delight in looking at them.
Here the garden of the Jarvis House on Long Island.


All that wretched snow still lying around.


A chilly doorway in Huntington, Long Island.

A chilly doorway on 23rd Street.

Friday, November 21, 2008

East Side


Very bright green...


Tasteful and warm colored ivy cascading out of a window box just off the Bowery.



A very enigmatic poster. What do all these disparate things have to do with one another?
That is the question.



On a bright clear, cold day, black and white looks stupendously crisp.


The merchants house seems part of a quite different and gentler world with its ornate doorway and tree reflected in the window.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Cold



A high school on 24th Street has very swanky doors.
It's cold walking up to Whole Foods.



A bistro on 8th Avenue has door whose color reminds me of Marrakech.



One flower to a vase.......very tasteful and, one hopes, not too pricey.




Between 8th and 7th Avenue on 18th Street, I come upon a strange hand and wonder if I should have my fortune told. But I don't.



The golden lion looks suitably mysterious and rather fierce.