Thursday Doors…doors with flowers

A beautiful door is great on its own but a beautiful door with flowers near it is even more attractive, at least to me. Here are a few examples I found while walking along some Redondo Beach streets where I hadn’t been before and you know that where there are new streets, there are new houses, and where there are new houses, there are new doors!!

This door goes to an inner courtyard of an apartment or condo complex.

I enjoyed everything about this entryway.

Our door host with the most, Dan, now has a book out, so when you go to his door post today, find out more about it.

Thursday doors…bringing nature home

A house that has virtually no plants or trees of any kind around it always looks sad and barren to me, something not integrated with nature in any way. In a city like Philadelphia with many row houses, there are few yards and rarely any surrounding a home. However, home or business owners still find ways to bring nature to their doors, gladdening the hearts of passers while making doors and entryways more attractive.

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water. ~Barbara Kingsolver

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the fall garden

Earth laughs in flowers….Henry David Thoreau

I went to Trader Joe’s today, located in an upscale mall not far from our house. The landscaping at the mall is always lovely but today it was particularly outstanding, with spectacular flower, leaf and plant colors everywhere.  And it wasn’t just the colors.  The fragrance of the sweet alyssum was astonishing.  Fortunately, I had my iPad in my purse, so I wandered around for some time taking pictures, shopping forgotten, encountering a number of others enjoying the display.  Fall is certainly going out with a bang here!!

I hope the pictures of these flowers bring joy to your heart and start your weekend off with beauty.  And I how I wish I had these landscapers!!