Gray, on "gray"...

Stone edging, along a wooden fence...

Driveways... Like old

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

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...

Awesome "Dogs"!!!

Roadside sign... "Awesome Dogs"... At entrance to a parking lot for two businesses... A Hardware store and a Soda and Beverage store...

And here is the setup, for the "Awesome Dogs"... She offers Hot Dogs, 'Brats', sometimes Pulled Pork, soda, Saratoga Water... And they are good! :-)
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She spends her summers here. And then packs up and goes down to Florida, to do the same thing there, in the winter months.
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Too long without...

Too long, without some reflection photos, here...

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Memories, of where a tree once stood...

This odd looking thing above, is in the front of a yard, on one of the big "Summer Cottages." It's all that remains of where a tree once stood. When the big trees around here, would become diseased near the bottom, they used to do what you see above. Try to save the tree, by putting these cement bricks and etc., where the tree was rotted. Interesting... But since I don't remember the tree, I don't know how long 'it worked.' :-)

{All my photos can be clicked on, to enlarge}

Spring projects are piling up around here, both inside and out. So I'll keep posting photos, but not be able to spend as much time on the computer, for a few days.
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Later Update:

Please click here, to read my entry in another blog!!!! :-)))))) Oh I so hope we are on our way to a Triple Crown Winner, this year! :-))))))
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My Favorite!

I'm kind of "under the weather" {which means, I don't feel good}, so I've not been around to read/comment in blogs as much. Sorry...
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But I put up a couple of photos of my favorite 'horse.' These horse statues began as a fund raiser. Every year, there are more make. This one {my favorite} was purchased by The Adirondack Trust Bank. It's stored inside somewhere during winter and put back out, in nice weather.

You can enlarge all photos, by clicking on them...
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Ducks take to water...

Water... Ducks... Little stream... On college campus...
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Big Red Bug...

Big Red Bug on local college campus. That's a bench, in the lower left hand corner. The Bug is a ways behind it, but it is big. It's the only piece of modern sculpture, I can understand. :-) And I actually think it's pretty cute.

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April 1st ~ Water

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A little brook, running on the college campus, in town.
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Signs unique to your city...

The sign doesn't quite cover it. The Irish came first, and they were employed in the glass blowing factories. {On Glass Factory Mountain, as it was called} This west side of town where their homes were, was nicknamed 'Dublin.' The Irish began to move out, when the glass factories closed. And the Italians came next. To this day, there are still many Italian families living there.

I may not have worded this entry properly. We in the USA are all descendants of those who came from other countries!!! Unless we are American Indians, that is. My great grandfather on my mother's side, came from Ireland. My grandfather on my father's side, came from Germany. My husband's grandfather came from Germany. We are ALL descended from people from other countries, and proud of it.

They came here to the USA, and worked hard and saw to it, that their children learned the language and integrated. And learned to be good citizens of their adopted country. And that is why many of us feel that this should continue. Integration in the adopted country, I mean. Become a citizen... Learn the language... And be proud of both one's heritage, and of one's adopted country.

Do you have signs/plaques, unique to your city or area? Look around, maybe you'll find some.

Some time ago, another city blog, asked this question. Sadly, her blog is no longer active. If it was, I'd link back to it, of course.
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From here, to there...

Our city is built on uneven ground. There are small hills, in some places. So it's necessary to have stairways, here and there.

Probably most people drive around town, not needing these steps. But I hope there are some who use them. Especially these above, which go from a street where there is parking, up to the main street. Where people shop and work.

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Passageway...

Just a passageway at night. There are more steps, farther 'in the distance'... but the lights seem to hide them. I am standing on the store level. The steps lead up to a parking area, behind.

I know. :-( A very "blahhhhhhh" photo, compared with yesterday's flowers.
But, it is still Winter around here. I'll try for more color, again tomorrow.

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More yummies...

Shots taken inside the old Gas/Filling Station, which was moved,
and turned into a Bakery and a Lunch spot.

What is at the top of the stairs...?

The other day I showed Stairs, from below. Today I show them, from above.

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If you let your eye follow the logical route, you can see where the steps end... At those dark posts to the right, in this picture. And down below where they end {or where they begin, if looking from the bottom}, you can see something which looks like a white 'box.' It's not a 'box.' It's the small pavilion which has been built around one of our many Mineral Springs.

So, what else is at the top of this stairway? A city street and across the street, is a very, very old building, built in 1773. Which doesn't seem that old to people in other lands, but in "The New World," it is old. :-) Some time ago I did an entry on this building, with 5 photos on the inside. Since part of it's history was as an Inn... And since our Mineral Springs have long been sought out for their medicinal qualities... I imagine that this stairway was built on the site of the original path down to the Spring... from the Inn above. Where travelers would stay, when coming to the Spring.

Steps

Back in January, these steps looked like this.

Blogger will be down later, for a bit, so I am posting Oct. 16th pic, now

Big Red Bug....

Yes, this is a sculpture of a big red bug, we guess. It's on a very near-by college campus. By

near-by I mean, across the street.

College Campus = Lots of *Artsy-Fartsy* stuff. Actually, you can sort-of-see what this sculpture is supposed to be of. Not so, with others! Wow!

But then, I guess I'm just not .... Liberal-College-type couth, sophisticated, refined. THANK HEAVENS! -grin-