Thursday Doors…an eclectic mix

I’ve been archive trawling, yielding three doors, although very different styles, that range from Costa Rica to Louiville, Kentucky to St. Charles, Missouri. Full disclosure: one is a gate serving as a door. Welcome to Thursday Doors, where we travel the world in search of interesting doors.

In 2014 when our older daughter gifted me a week-long trip to Costa Rica for Christmas (perhaps the most unexpected gift ever), we took quite a few breaks at Cafe Milagro where you could get wonderful coffee, delicious food, or a cold lime drink, life-savingly refreshing on a hot day. They also sported a cheerful mix of colors.

This part of St. Charles hearkens back to much earlier days and styles in the US.

I guess this door is also part of a very unexpected gift, but from both our girls. They gave us several days at a beautiful bed-and-breakfast in Louisville, Kentucky. This was part of the top floor that was for us. We had a wonderful time and the owners treated us to samples of Kentucky bourbon when they found out we enjoyed Scotch. The two are related in both being types of whiskey/whisky but the former is from (where else) Kentucky while the later can only be made in Scotland. Cheers.

Thursday Doors 5.4.23

Joshua trees and a bit of inspiration

Last fall on my way home from a visit to southern California, I drove through Joshua Tree National Park, There was a lot of wide open space, many unusual plants and trees, and trust me, when you get into the park and they say there’s no phone coverage, there is no phone coverage from the second you enter! My husband wanted me to send photos but it was impossible until I left the park. I quite enjoyed the relative solitude while there. As for as the trees, which are located at the north (top) end of the park, for me they could also be called Dr. Seuss trees.

Although there’s blue in the mountains and sky in the first photo, I’m going with this Louisville, Kentucky street art for my blues entry today. Sorry for saying earlier this was in Chicago. I was just going through files and realize my mistake.

Thursday doors…elegant Louisville

Just off the main part of downtown Louisville’s vibrant Fourth Street area are some elegant old buildings and plenty of small, new shops.  You might even catch a selfie in one of the theater doors.

These doors belong to the tallest building in Kentucky, the 400 West Market Building. Although it looks vintage, it was finished in 1993.

Thursday doors…Now for something completely different.

Downtown Louisville has more than just doors featuring artists creations.  Even though we were there for the Ironman, I found time to point my phone at some of them.  🙂  I had to do some catching up to everyone else at times, but it was worth it.

I found tall, elegant doors topped with a fascinating reflection,

Thursday Doors…The meter’s running!

Before we get to the doors, do you remember my lesson on how to pronounce “Louisville?”  Well, in case you don’t, the visitor’s center downtown has this cute reminder.

Now on to the last two theater/theatre doors I found on our walks back and forth from our motel to our daughter’s hotel.

Thursday doors…Loovul double doors

I promised you some more of those Louisville theater doors and here they are.  These two are double doors, allowing even more room for decorating and twice the fun.  I get a “Starry, starry night”/Vincent van Gogh feel from this first one.  It was such a pleasure to walk by these every day!

Knock on Norm’s Montreal blog door to find an amazing selection of entryways each week.

Thursday Doors…horses and bourbon

Although Louisville (say “Loo-a-vul” or Loo-a-ville” or see this guide) is known for horses, the Kentucky Derby, and bourbon whiskey (all bourbon and Scotch are whiskey/whisky, but not all whiskey/whisky is bourbon/Scotch and bourbon and Scotch aren’t the same…but are both whiskey/whisky), we were there a few weeks ago for the Ironman.  Our older daughter’s boyfriend was competing while we were there to cheer him on and have fun.

Who woke up one day and thought, “Hey.  Wouldn’t it be fun to swim 2.2 miles, then cycle 112 miles, and follow that by running a marathon (26.22 miles)?  And maybe I could get 2400 other people to participate.”?  That’s how many people (maniacs) started the race in Louisville this year.  I might be able to train for the cycling and the marathon, but that swim would NOT happen.  I’ll stick to sprinting, thank you very much.

Louisville has a nicely compact, revitalized downtown with a section on Fourth Street that’s the happening place.  As we walked from our motel a few blocks away towards Fourth Street, we passed a theater that made me break out my camera as well as in a happy dance.  One look and you’ll know why.  But I’ll give you three looks, the first one quintessential Loo-a-vul.

(A busy day again for me today, which means I won’t be getting to many, if any, posts until tonight or tomorrow.  Thanks for bearing with me on that!)

You’ll find more doors at Norm’s site.  Just view his post and then click on the link critter to let you visit doors all over the world.  Yes, we have this much fun every Thursday!

Thursday Doors…Throwback Doors

Our  Thursday Doors time capsule (no photo of the door available) hurtles us back this week past millions of doors to the year 2010, before TD was a tiny, hobbit-sized door idea in Norm’s mind.

Since I was in college, I’ve been going to Wyoming at some point during the summer, missing only a few years in all that time.  For many years, my parents were there all summer, so when our girls were very young, we stayed in the cabin of a friend of the family, giving everyone more space and privacy.  The cabin was heated only by this wood-burning stove and despite it being summer, there were often days when we needed that heat.  (There were years when it snowed in June!)  My husband or I would get up quietly in the morning, get the fire going, then head back to bed until the main room warmed up, although sometimes I would get dressed and sit outside with a cup of tea, watching moose or just relaxing.  This was definitely a working stove!

When our older daughter was old enough to take care of the fire, she would often get it stoked up before we went out for a horseback ride, which felt great in the morning.  However, the cabin roof caught the sun about mid-morning, so sometimes we would come back to a cabin so hot we had to open the door and all the windows in an effort to make it bearable.  🙂