porch series continued

[OT from cottage renovations]
[crossposted to oldhouses and victorian_house]

a couple of images in the continuing irregular Grove cottage porch series

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Grove Avenue

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it doesn't have a sign but historically this is Sunset Cottage.  it looks across Grove Avenue and Chapel Park, from which this was taken in order to include the white hydrangeas.

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pretty peas

[OT from cottage renovations]

sweet peas always seem to come out during that time when late spring is turning into early summer.  the flowers are quite attractive, looking a bit like wisteria on a smaller scale.  just don't go eating its seeds -- they're a neurotoxin. 

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Grove Road

   

   
Lathyrus odoratus

just a bit more sun and heat will bring them out

[OT from cottage renovations]

these Day lilies are pretty close to happening.  this patch of them (one of more than a few around here) gets plenty of sun and goes to show that the Grove isn't all shade gardening.   much  most of it, but not all. 

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Chestnut Avenue

Hemerocallis fulva

easy on the eyes, hard on the skull

[OT from cottage renovations]

there are lots of ways to play with light.  one of which I have not yet tired is through these images the many effects of light on Grove vegetation. 

another is one that I've always wanted to get a chance to work with but never have: glass, as in glassmaking.  design and execution and the properties of glass have always had a strong appeal to me.  some day I do hope to get a chance both to study and to try it (on visiting Venice I was anxious to learn something from the Murano glassworks; they were happy to sell their wares but when I tried asking about technique suddenly it was all "non capisco" (though "vietato" would have been more like it)). 

oh, well.  some day. 

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Chestnut Avenue

hanging in friends' yard is this attractive and clever design for a birdbath; a shallow glass dish suspended in a wrought iron frame with a basket handle.  it was a couple of years ago when they first put it up, hanging from a tree branch just at the height of my forehead and indeed that was how I first encountered it, with a sudden clonk to the foreskull followed immediately by a drenching from its erstwhile contents.  it's now a few inches higher and their yard is that much safer. 

[in the interest of reasonable disclosure I have to fess up to having messed with this image some: in order to get both its near and distant rims in reasonable focus what you see here is actually a composite from two different exposures]

petal-filtered light

[OT from cottage renovations]

nothing special, just some geraniums in a hanging basket.  it was my good fortune to catch them at a moment when the afternoon sunlight was playing through them like this. 

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Chestnut Avenue

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