Residents in Aotearoa: Walk ins Welcome in Ponsonby. (well, mostly)

Saturday, 24 July 2021

Walk ins Welcome in Ponsonby. (well, mostly)

Okay, tell me honestly. If you were standing where I am now, taking this picture, wouldn't you wonder what's in there?

The double doorways, the unique paint job, long narrow hallways disappearing into the distance. It makes me curious. And there are stairways back there. You know what I think about stairways, right? (they lead to interesting places)

I showed you this place once before in a post about Ponsonby, but I didn't take you upstairs. Today I will.

We'll go to the left side first.

There was a young woman up there, who, when she heard me on the stairs, stuck her head out of the room beyond the chairs and asked, "What do you want.?"

She seemed out of sorts, so I said I was just looking, and retreated.

Now lets go to the right.

Tattoo art everywhere

I like this.

Here's the barber shop.

Later, walking down Ponsonby, I came across another double set of doors. Instead of going in, I panned out for the next picture.

Close by the fancy duplex was this house with only a single door. The double palms though continue my theme (so far in this post) of doubles

Although....the lattice work on each side of the door, the pairs of double pillars and symmetrical windows and shrubbery qualify this place.

This may very well be my favorite photo of the day.

Double kids rid in an electric bike.

I will close this post with a short video. I hope you enjoyed yet another look at Ponsonby. -djf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuxa2_0kg6M

4 comments:

Dianne25 July 2021 at 09:09
I like your theme for this post and enjoyed the images you shared of double doors, stairs, gates, gables, pillars, palms and people! My favorite is also the one you liked best.

The tattoo place and barber shop have some interesting decor with the apparent hunting trophies. Did you notice how the pair of pheasants and rainbow flags also picked up your theme for the day?
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Unknown25 July 2021 at 11:30
I loved the theme and the exploration of the differing stairs. Too bad that the tattoo place was unfriendly. I thought of 2 differing stairs in my childhood that have differing memories. One was climbing the stairs at Dr. Franck's old office (scary). The other was the stairs at the old library in city hall. I LOVED that library and have good memories of that. I loved the beautiful houses in this post and the last post also. The weather looks perfect there now if that music was recent? McKenzie
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My deer blind, a place outside of time and space.

This is a picture of my deer hunting blind. I built in in 1975 and used it until about 2010. I'm publishing this picture and text on November 15 of 2022, the opening day of Michigan's rifle deer hunting season, to remember all the years I spent sitting there and occasionally harvesting a deer. I think that the meat I provided for my family was only a small portion of the benefit I received from hunting in this manner. Of greater value to me was the time I spent alone, watching the forest and its many components interact. I had time to unwind from the stresses of my work, to appreciate our world, and even sometimes to pray. That blind was a refuge to me. It was cozy, and comfortable and I spent much more time filming the activities of not only deer, but bears, racoons, turkeys, squirrels, hawks, and once, even a snowy owl, than I did harvesting deer. May I suggest to all of you that you try to find some time and a place, where you can be alone, and where you can ponder and appreciate your life and your place in the world. It does a body good. -djf