the door

 

Old doors with their mysterious stories are intriguing.  I love everything about this door (except the price!) -- the turquoise color, the peeling paint, the carved motif and especially the fist-shaped knocker (purportedly from Egypt). But what would I do with an eight-foot door?

 

Unique Rabbit

2024 Broadway

Lubbock, Texas



azul de taos

 

No trip to Taos or New Mexico would be complete without the obligatory "adobe" photo.  Tradition has it that blue stops evil spirits from entering the home and dates back to early settlers. Another story relates the color to Our Lady of Guadalupe who appeared to the faithful wrapped in a blue robe.  The blue on this door is probably to keep the turistas away since the casa is near the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church, a site with many visitors like me.

 

Ranchero de Taos, New Mexico

5.22.2015



the blue door

 

In 2012 the Harvest Queen Mill was dethroned -- another Plainview business bites the dust.  Agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland cut 1,000 jobs, including the 30 or so employees in Plainview, due to declining corn and soybean prices.The Plainview Harvest Queen Mill and Elevator was built in 1926 to mill wheat. The facility was converted in the 1970s to produce industrial starch from grain sorghum. ADM, an international corporation out of UK, acquired the facility in 1985.  A fixture on the Plainview skyline, this portion of the mill is about six stories with the blue door on the 3rd level.

 

Harvest Queen Mill and Elevator

1208 N. Columbia

Plainview, Texas

2.1.2015

photo courtesy of  Plainview Herald



puerta azul

 

As a photographic subject, doors catch my eye.  I have a folder full of images from many different places that "some day" I going to do something with.  Evidently I am not alone in this interest.  There is a blog Legion of Door Whores for "those who appreciate doors."  It has thousands of images posted from all over the world.  This door is in the El Presido, the first neighborhood in Tucson, which is also on the National Register of Historical Places.

 

Tucson, Arizona

2.27.2014

Need something or someone located?  Try National Locator Services - but first you have to locate them.  There's no listing in the phone book or on the web.  And your GPS would probably be challenged to locate the office.  Photographically speaking, this was an interesting street to find while locating roads I'd never traveled on.

1115 North Avenue T
Lubbock, Texas