Thursday Doors…2020 favorites

I’m usually too lazy to go back and look at all the doors or gates I shared in a year, but I’ve decided to make the effort this year. Of course that creates a new problem: which doors to choose?? I’m going with some favorites from each of the places I usually find doors.

The door that no one really cared about, from the visitor’s center at Saguaro National Park…

Keep on truckin’. From Chicago’s WNDR Museum…

The door to a Wyoming sheepherder’s home…

Found in Pasadena, California…

And, of course, from France…

for Thursday Doors 12.17.20

Thursday doors…Pasadena 1

What’s a good activity during Covid while visiting a daughter and her husband in southern California? Let’s grab some coffee, then go walking in a neighborhood filled with elegant homes. Caffeine, exercise, good company, and doors. What’s not to like? There should be lots of doors, which means handing off my coffee regularly so I can take photos. What I didn’t take into account is that in such a neighborhood everyone has gates and many doors are too far away for my phone camera. However, here are some of the doors I did get and you’ll be getting gates at some point.

Decked out for Christmas.

This is the quintessential California look, don’t you think, and it looks more livable to me.

If you took away the house around it, this would make a marvelous door for a mausoleum, don’t you think?

for Thursday Doors 12.10.20

Thursday doors…gated

Pasadena has many beautiful old homes and and the old part of downtown has its share of lovely buildings. I like cities where new businesses are found in old buildings, a sort of honoring of past and present together. Here are three of my favorite entryways in old town.

Thursday doors…Pasadena power

I’m back from a week in Arizona of family time and looking at rental houses and areas (too early to rent yet but we need to get started), then a week of relaxation and family fun in Pasadena. I hope you enjoyed the two weeks of photos from “my” park, McDowell Forest Preserve in Naperville, Illinois. I do most of my walking in the park when I’m at home, but in Pasadena, I walked a lot back and forth between our daughter’s condo and Old Town Pasadena where I saw this power box a number of times. You get several doors for the price of one box.

Thursday doors…holy doors

First Baptist Church in Pasadena, California has been around sine 1903.  Its beauty drew me in, but the doors to the church were locked.  After ringing the bell and explaining to the secretary my desire to see the inside, she not only let me in, but told me all about the church.  There were a few lovely doors to be seen as well, although the bright California sun sometimes made it difficult to get a good shot.