They are trying to break through the pushy greenery, but they aren’t really succeeding.
It doesn’t look very malevolent from this angle, but this house has always creeped me out. I deliver the quarterly neighborhood newsletter and I always take a deep breath before setting foot on this property. You know how some houses are like that? There was some indication today, that this might be a tear-down. But perhaps I’m just hopeful.
That cat has a clear shot to the ground. Not that I think wandering outside is best for the cat. But I appreciate the ingenuity.
I had a few hours between appointments on a lovely Saturday, so I did something I rarely do. I wandered about with no real goals in mind. It was a beautiful day to do so.
This lilac impresses me with the amount of blooms it has managed to produce.
In Massachusetts I lived in what was called a Philadelphia-style house. I just googled the term and results seem to indicate that this term is only used in the Boston area to descibe a two-family house. At any rate, they were everywhere in the Boston area and I don’t often see them here. So I took a picture of this one, which is not only a Philidelphia-style house, but said house seems to have managed to escape the sprucing up most houses have undergone in this neighborhood.
It was record store day. This is a line to get into one of Portland’s record stores.
I ate my lunch here. I did not try their delicious flan. That term is an oxymoron in my book. But every time I run across flan, I think of the Birthday Flan in one of the episodes of Friends and I smile. That Birthday Flan got what it had coming to it.
The windows have begin to wrap around all sides of the building. I’m also interested that the mesh covering only covers one half of the building. I initially thought they would just use it on the places they were installing windows, but here are windows without any mesh covering. So who knows?
Here we have an example of how infill affects the neighborhood. In the foreground, we have two small cottages, typical of the street. The two houses next door are infill, looming over their neighbors. You can also see one in the background.
Sometimes a lilac needs a little help from its next door neighbor. The neighbor in question is a tall fir tree.
I love this re-do of a frame for an espalier. New frame is made of 4x4s. You can see the old 2×2 frame also. The yard is so often about redoing.
I snapped a picture of this couple on my way to the #20 bus stop. I walked through high school in ankle-length skirts such as the one above. And I loved it when boys wore long johns under their shirts/shorts.
I appreciate whatever designer came up with the repeating motif for this restaurant.
This is the still-ugly lot where the house was torn down last year. Someone has prettied the chain link fence up with some spring blooms and greenery. I’m guessing this was done by the homeless people who frequent the stoop. Thank you homeless people!
The windows are coming. This is when it gets boring again, as most of the changes are happening inside, where I can’t see.
