Send me on a different route home, and there're a lot of new things to see!
Murray Ave. has a twin. This is Mulholland Ave., one tick farther west than Murray.
Note plaid cover on chair has a stripe the same color as the door.
The tree on the porch (just behind the pumpkin at the top of the stairs) has little lights.
I'm imagining that the room over the garage is an artist's studio.....
Simple, but nice.
Let's have a closer look at that shiny thing on the door.... (click to see a larger version, if you like -- I couldn't read what it said until I saw it on "the big screen"....)
I like the leafy reflections with the leafy shapes on the brass.
It is now time for some serious orange.
Coreopsis.
I love the seeds, too.
Porch-table pumpkins. Note orange mountain ash berries in reflection.
Here are the mountain ash berries, in person. The camera was so dazzled by the paleness of the house that it made the mountain ash tree dark. It's easier to see it in the previous!
Do appreciate the orange doors.
Switching over from orange to cooler colors........
See the kitty statue on the porch?
LOVE the house number, and that excellent bell thing, with all its parts and markings.... Wonder if it makes noise, too? Looks like it would......
Geranium.
We saw a bouquet like this on Murray Ave.
Autumnal colors.
The porch floor color is talking to the color of the chair cushion.....
Yet another excellent porch.
I am feeling like I am wasting opportunity, with my glorified front stoop. No space for furniture, but I could surely have decoration. Hmmmmm........
One last look back at Mulholland Ave.
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2 comments:
I am curious if you know...I love all the houses on Mulholland, by the way,...what date appromimately were they built? And was there an industry or business that corresponded to their being built, i.e. company housing?
I cannot express enough how much I appreciate your photos. The architecture of the city is fabulous, and the personal expression of the paint and gardens and porches is fascinating.
We could all take a lesson :)
You know, I don't know.
And I wasn't able to find out anything in particular about Murray & Mulholland.
They are in Ann Arbor's Old West Side, a fine place to walk through, but a hellish place to live if you don't happen to agree with the myriad rules about what you can and cannot do with your house.
One woman with a very modest house proposed to replace some number of windows, to the tune of $8000. They denied her permission to do so, as, according to them, the windows were reparable, for only $13000................
She had to appeal and then appeal again before reason prevailed.
The article (which I read just this week) said that you couldn't tell they were new windows unless you knew...............
Oy.
My first house was built in 1880, so probably contemporary with some fraction of Old West Side houses, but it was on the Wrong Side of Huron, and not in a historic district. It was a charming and wonderful house, which suffered only from being at the bottom of every hill (great topsoil, but the drains backed up if there was a grain of sand in the pipes), and from being in a "transitional" neighborhood were children and dogs ran wild and noisy at all hours of the day and night. I'll have to take a pic of it some time (.8 miles from here) and blog it. The guy who bought it takes lovely care of it............
Thank you so much for the kind words. Coming from a Real Artist (though a dry one ;-) ) such as yourself, they mean a lot.
:-) :-)
(Loving KathyR "just say no to ninnies.........." :-) Now if only they would vanish once we said "no" to them...........)
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