Restoration continues...

Restoration continues on this house...

Apple Pie says.......

Apple Pie says Autumn

Autumn

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Time off......................

Taking time off...

I'm not posting here, on any regular basis.

I'm not visiting other's photo blogs, on any regular basis.

Nor am I commenting in other's photo blogs, on any regular basis.

Time to take time off, from both blogging here and visiting others...

Thank you for all your niceness.

I appreciate every comment which has been left here.

Ferrari

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We don't see these in the parking garage, every day! Bright red Ferrari!

Very, very coooooooooooooooooooooool...

You could tell it was High Season.

:-)

But the overhead lights in parking garages, mess with the color red. :-(

Street lights...

Street lights...
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Oh shinnnnnnnnnnnnney!

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Shiny dress in store front window...
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Reflections

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Window display reflections, downtown at night...
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The 139th Running of The Travers Stakes...

I will simply leave a link to the post I put in my other blog, today.

Since it's the big news of the day, around this city.

Please click and read here. Please and thank you.

Dig this!!!

A hole has been dug. But why? This is High Season and no unnecessary digging can be done in the city, now.

But, this is ongoing work. Fire hydrants are being replaced. So this kind of digging can be done, even in High Season. Even though it may bother tourists and summer season visitors.

:-)
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Drip... Drip... Drip...

Drip...

Drip...

Drip...


Drip...

Our Summer weather, most of this year...

Old... Big...

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One of the old, big homes on Union Avenue...

Gray, on "gray"...

Stone edging, along a wooden fence...

The calm, before...

...the storm.

Why??????????????

Why...... Did someone pound a nail in here, on this tree???

The work continues...

More preservation/restoration work being done...

...On the house I previously showed here, and here, and here.

Hitching posts...

Hitching post... Painted in the 'colors' of the racing stable, whose owners keep this Summer house.

For non-racing people... Those different colored clothes which jockeys wear, when racing, are the 'colors' or the 'racing silks' of the stable, which owns the particular horse he is riding.

This is a simpler hitching post.

Another simpler one... Out front of a house, which is not presently owned by a racing family.

Driveways... Like old

Driveways... Done the 'old way.' Or at least, looking like the 'old way.'

The "Pink Sheet"

Getting ready to sell the "Pink Sheet," a staple in Summer in Saratoga, at the Saratoga Thoroughbred Race Track.

The "Pink Sheet" is a special edition of the local newspaper, containing a section, printed on pink paper... Containing everything you want to know about the races of the day.

Young people gather in photo above, to get their papers to sell and to be assigned where to sell them. What spots around the entrances to the thoroughbred track.

This was taken from a moving car, so it's not very clear. But you can still see the bright pink t-shirts/caps they wear. One of our granddaughters is selling it, again this year. About 4 hours of sell, sell, sell! In any/all weather. Sunny... like the day I took this pic. And heavy rain, rain, rain ... like too many days, last week.

Hanging plants...

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Vines and hanging plants decorate an old building on Church Street, in summer. Both on the fire escape, and in window boxes...

Dripping...

This photo, sums up our weather.

And sums up how everyone and everything is feeling, in our weather.

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Old brick sidewalks...

Original brick sidewalks... A dying sight, sad to say. See where the driveway was repaved, and the bricks are new? And they look different from the old...

And the old bricks no longer lie perfectly flat...

This old one tends to dip down, in the middle of this narrower stretch.

And grass will grow between the bricks. All of which, adds character... :-)

But sadly, people today are pulling up the original forms of sidewalks, along this stretch of N. Broadway. Replacing them with slabs of concrete. Probably safer to walk on. But, just not the same. Just not as.... "pretty."

Here a view, there a view...

The renovated carriage house front door... You can click on my 'Carriage House Restoration' Label, to see more views of this carriage house.
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What is this? A chimney clean-out? Note how the chimney seems to taper in, just below this little 'door.' This is the ground floor, of the back of this home.
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A "tipsy" swing... Angled photo of... :-)
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Rest a while?

A little bench, outside the corner of the fence...
The fence which is seen in the last 2 photos in the preceding entry...

Views, seen through..........

Urns, see through trees...

Window details, seen through a fence...

Entryway, though fence... This house is said to have been rented by {click-->} Lillian Russell when she came to Saratoga Spgs. in the High Season of August, at the turn of the century.

View through the fence, at rear of above house's property... One part of a grape arbor {or perhaps some other vine}, which runs along the side of the back yard and across the back of it {above}. Perhaps in Lillian's day, she strolled there in the late afternoon... Before going in to dress for a dinner party...

For Sale

What I call "The Lipton Tea House" is again for sale. I call it that, because years ago, when we first bought our drug store, my husband used to deliver medicine to an old lady who lived there... And she was the then heir to the Lipton Tea Co.

Many years have come and gone since then. And many owners also. At one time, it was used for a fund raiser for something in town. And different designers decorated different rooms in the house. I went on the tour, of course. It's a way to get inside these beautiful old homes. Tours such as this, and estate sales.

Oh and having friends who sell Real Estate, who arrange to take you through, when a house is for sale. ,-) No, that hasn't happened in a while, though...