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...

Winding path... Part II

Do you remember this {click} wee little winding path? Well, it has been changed and changed.

Is this the final look? Time will tell.

I now realize that I didn't show, where the path 'comes out.' Sorry. There is a small gate, to the right of this pic. Will have to get a better shot...

What I'm confused about is..... The macadam parking place, just inside where the old drive way used to be. {It looks like a parking place to me...} I had thought that this was to be just that, a parking place. But now, it looks like there is no way to open the fence there. So how could any vehicle be driven in and parked there? Hmmmm...
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In the good old Summer time...

I admit that I've been remiss in getting summer-time pictures, so far this year. But I'm wanting to show something beside Hot Dog stands and "boo-boo's." :-) Soooooooooo...

Sooo, I did the next best thing... Grabbed some photos from last summer, and am re-posting them. I'm sure these places will be just as pretty, this year... When I get to photographing them again. A loved house like this one, never disappoints.

Lilies and a "boo-boo"...

A "hedge" of Lilies, down the alley...


And the "boo-boo" I got, while trying to take the above picture.
Silly me, I was backing up to get a good shot, and stepped in a low spot and... went "head over tea-kettle," as the saying goes. Landed on my elbow, as you can see.

Oh what we do for our photography! >,-))))