Originally I decided not to participate in Norm Frampton’s #ThursdayDoors event because it’s been a rough and trying week. Two deaths, one of them a suicide, both unexpected. Instead I took a walk down to my favorite place.
My favorite door is the panel in the middle. It’s a barn-style door hanging from hinges thus it slides to one side to “open.” What do you think it reveals?
When I was a child these were my favorite doors! Who doesn’t love a carousel? Last Saturday found this carousel during a Halloween celebration in Howarth Park (Santa Rosa) thus all the children (and many of the adults) were in costume.
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This isn’t a very good picture but you can kind of see Minnie Mouse in her polka dot dress!
Here’s a link to some of the world’s “must see” carousels. Which is your favorite? Mine, of course, is the one on Pier 39 in San Francisco.
Tomorrow, as promised, the conclusion of Brownie Fright Night!
Arches of the Brooklyn Bridge – doors to Manhattan
Here’s my addition to Norm Frampton’s always fascinating #ThursdayDoors challenge. Check out other doors here
You would think on a Monday afternoon in October this bridge would be an enjoyable walk. Unfortunately it was packed with tourists. The worst part (and I’ll probably get in hot water for saying this) were the bicyclists in a hurry to get somewhere. Especially if some poor unsuspecting tourist from Slovenia inadvertently stepped into their sacred space to get a picture.
I thought this building was very interesting considering the current debate over illegal immigrants. Harkens back to the time when we welcomed the poor and needy.
Today a break from Brownie Fright Night to participate in Norm Frampton’s #ThursdayDoors event! I took these pics while walking to dinner in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is still a little iffy but I’m glad we were brave (or drunk enough) to walk through it!
This second picture is a little fuzzy – I blame the wine!
I snapped this picture while climbing up to the abbey of Mont St Michel. I believe the door was level and that I was on a steep staircase but I had drunken a quart of hard cider for lunch so anything is possible.
Mont St Michel is one of my favorite places in France although many people (hubby among them) feel it’s become just another typical tourist trap, cheap trinkets, over-priced food and crowded lookouts.
Harbor of Grand Camp Maisy
While in France we stayed in the small town of Grand Camp Maisy, a fishing village somewhat off the beaten path.
Rising from the salt flats.
The Mont is over an hour’s drive from Grand Camp Maisy but it was well worth it!
The view from the top – surrounded by mud until the tide comes in!
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Here is my contribution to Norm 2.0’s #ThursdayDoors event:
From China Camp where in the 1800s, a group of fisherman pulled shrimp from the marshes along the San Pablo Bay, dried them, and shipped them off to China in boxes like this:
Here are some more pictures of China Camp:
The cabin
The Dock
Sadly the fishermen were forced out of business in the early 1900s and so now it is a portal to the past and a popular picnic spot.
Art left on a picnic table at China Camp
Saying nothing in particular 