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33/52 Thursday Doors

August 18, 2016August 18, 2016Posted in Adorned Doors, Doors, Legoland California, Nikon, Photography, Thursday's Doors, Toys, Travel and TourismTagged Doors, Legoland California, Nikon, Photography, Thursday Doors, Toys, Travel and Tourism33 Comments

For this week’s Thursday Doors post I’m sharing more doors from Legoland California. The displays are really, really good.

There’s a section in the park with iconic buildings; some of which one must take a river cruise to see, but this display of the United States Capitol Building located in Washington D.C. wasn’t part of the cruise. There are quite a few doors on it, but I have no close ups of the front doors due to the columns.

Legoland United States Capitol Building

Here’s close up of the Marching Band’s Drum Major though. Both my children were in their school bands all through their school years beginning in 4th grade so I’m rather fond of marching bands. 🙂 Baby Girl was a flutist, and Big Baby Boy was a drummer.

All the while they were growing up I was trying to play piano with weekly lessons. Just like I had them doing. There was for many years music, and a beat in our house. I miss it! I do hope #1 Grandson picks up an instrument. He plays my piano…without trying he picks out notes, chords and riffs! I have hope that he has the gift that skipped me. Drum Major Marching Band LegoLand CA

That’s the Washington Monument you see sticking up behind the Capitol Bldg.

I have no idea how many Lego bricks it took to build this monument/display, but I know it took many, many hours to complete. I was in awe looking at all the displays. Really, they are amazing.

Around the back side of the Capitol Bldg. is a replica of Georgetown.

Another fact about me I don’t think I’ve shared on this blog is that I’m a huge fan of Americana art. Geez, tonight I’m really opening up! Must be the Full Sturgeon Moon. 🙂

I LOVE Charles Wysocki, and Linda Nelson Stocks who are Americana artists. I’ve crossed stitched a Wysocki Autumn Americana Village which took me nearly 9 months to complete. I had it framed. Before our remodel last year it hung over my mantle. It’s still packed…like most of my art at the moment. I feel really blessed to own one of Linda Nelson Stocks pieces. It is currently hanging over my mantle. It’s called the Village of Brewster.

I have 3 more seasons of Wysocki cross stitch pieces to complete; winter is started, but I have no idea when or if I’ll ever complete them. Fall I completed b/c it’s my favorite season.

Anyway, when I saw this colonial red house with white door with black and gray trim I oohed, and aaahhed. Oh, who am I kidding. I SWOONED! Then I took a photo for Thursday Doors. 🙂 I want this house with street lamps. and gate sold as a kit. I’d buy it, put it together with some sort of Loctite glue so it wouldn’t come apart, and I’d put it in my family room. Probably on top of my Entertainment Center where my Victorian Dollhouse resides. 🙂 I love and collect miniatures too. FWIW: I have stopped collecting Dolls, Teacup sets, and Teapots. I ran out of room! TMI? Okay, I know I’m a chatter duck! 🙂

I really like the gate on the left of the house too. The little blue door down the street was a bonus. 🙂 I’m sorry I have no idea how many Lego bricks it took to build this part of Georgetown either.

Warning! I have one or two more post of doors from Legoland California!

BTW: If this week’s post looks funky I apologize! I’m trying to get my images to display a bit larger. This theme is behaving differently the last month or so; my images are a good deal smaller than they used to be. I may end up changing themes! I hope you hang in there with me through this process! Believe me I am not looking forward to changing! It will be hard for me too!

This post is part of Norm 2.0’s Thursday Doors. If you love doors and would like to see the doors others are posting, or post doors you’ve photographed and join other door lovers from around the world click here.

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Thursday Doors 30/52 Trinity Lutheran Church

July 28, 2016July 28, 2016Posted in Architecture, Carson Valley, Churches, Gardnerville, NV, Nikon, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Churches, Doors, Gardnerville, Nevada, Nikon, Photography, Thursday Doors24 Comments

While over in Minden and Gardnerville, Nevada last Saturday we had a bit of time to kill so I cruised around looking for what else? DOORS! 🙂

The Steeple or Tower caught my eye of Trinity Lutheran Church before I knew what it was so He-Man and I made bee-line to the church.

Trinity Lutheran Church

This may have been the front door at one time, but I think they’re using a door on the East side now. There were quite a few cars in the parking lot on that side, and I did see a large glass door, but didn’t venture over there thinking there was something going on…possibly a wedding. I erred on the side of CHICKEN, and stayed on the north side of the building.

I really like the brick work in the arch entryway, and blond doors. I’m also a huge fan of brass kick plates.

Interesting facts/History:

The church was established in 1877. The first Trinity Lutheran Church in Carson Valley.

The first service in the nearly completed first building was in 1895. The official dedication ceremony for the newly built church was in 1897.

In 1899 a 1,020 pound church bell that was cast in France was installed. I’m guessing the tower holds the bell. Sadly, I didn’t hear it while there, but later that afternoon I heard a church bell, and wondered if this was what I was hearing.

In 1918 the use of German was suspended until after World War I.

In 1930 they selected their first building committee, but the Great Depression in 1931 contributed to the collapse of the first building effort.

1941 World War II begins. Many of their members enter the service 3 of which will not make it back.

Kenneth Storke was killed on the island of Luzon in 1945. His Grandfather, Henry Marquat donated the site for a new church also in 1945.

The following year they selected their second building committee, and in early Fall 1953 they held their last service in the old building.

In the fall of 1953 the new church was dedicated.

~trinitygv.com

Door to Trinity Lutheran Church

A side door closer look

Side Door Trinity Lutheran Church

and two plaques that are on the front brick work near the front doors.

Trinity Luthern Church Dedication Plaque

Building Age Plaque Trinity Lutheran Church

The doors are simple yet elegant, and building is beautiful I think.

I’ll be going back to the area before summer is over we’re looking at houses there, and I will stop by the church to see if I can get a look at the East and South sides of the building…and with any luck maybe a peek inside too. One can hope!

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Thursday Doors 29/52: N°119

July 21, 2016July 21, 2016Posted in Architecture, Doors, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Decorative Doors, Doors, Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Photography, Stained Glass window, Thursday Doors, Unique Doors42 Comments

I went over the hill to Santa Cruz, CA. yesterday evening to photograph the rising Full Moon- the Buck Moon. I noticed this door getting out of the car. The light hit the glass just right.

It reminds me of an Abalone shell’s interior. The wood on this door looks so supple and soft doesn’t it. I want to touch that door to see if it’s really wood! 🙂

N°119 Santa Cruz

I’ll post the Buck Moon image soon!

Lumix FZ200| Lexar Professional Digital Film| Hand-held

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Thursday Doors 28/52

July 14, 2016July 13, 2016Posted in Architecture, National Register of Historic Places, Nature, Nature Photography, Photography, Point Reyes National Seashore, Ranches, Thursday DoorsTagged Alligator Lizard, Architecture, Best Pad Lock, Door knob, Doors, National Register of Historic Places, Nature, Nikon, Photography, Pierce Point Ranch, Point Reyes National Seashore, Thursday Doors, Tule Elk Males29 Comments

Last week-end while in Point Reyes National Seashore I went out to Pierce Point Ranch which is where the road ends heading north in the park. I was planning to hike out to see the herd of Tule Elk, but it was so foggy reports from hikers returning from the trail said they’d not seen or heard the Elk. So, instead of hiking I stayed at the ranch and took photographs of some of the buildings and doors.

For the History Buffs:

“The Ranch was constructed by Solomon Pierce in the 1860’s. It was the most successful “butter rancho” in Point Reyes Township.

In the 1880’s the ranch was leased to a series of tenants, and in the mid 1930’s it was sold to the McClure family which operated it’s Grade B dairy until the about 1945, when dairy ranching ceased after 90 years.

The complex includes the 1869 and earlier sections of the two-story main house, the tank house, school, woodshed, carpenter shop, blacksmith shop, dairy, horse barn, slaughter house, hay barn, hog sheds, and pens. It represents the most extensive surviving historic complex in the Point Reyes National Seashore.

The Pierce Point Ranch on Tomales Point ceased operations in 1973. Three years later, Congress authorized creation of the wilderness area incorporating that ranch as habitat for the reintroduction of Tule Elk. Beginning in 1980, NPS invested in the rehabilitation of the ranch core, citing it as the best example of a nineteenth century west Marin dairy ranch. Pierce Point Ranch was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and was subsequently opened to the public as an interpretive site.“~http://wikimapia.org/100600/Pierce-Point-Ranch

Dairy/Long Barn Doors:

Long Barn Doors Pierce Point Ranch

The Dairy/Long Barn- It was so foggy the sky was white so, I converted this image to Black and White.

Long Barn Pierce Ranch

another image of the Dairy and shed with a couple more doors.

Dairy Barn Pierce Point Ranch

This might be the school house,

Pierce Point Ranch Point Reyes National Seashore

Closer look of door of possible school,

Door to building at Pierce Point Ranch

A closer look at that door knob, and pad lock,

Door knob and Best Lock Pierce Point Ranch

Here’s an image of a male Tule Elk that I took here back in 2012. Can you see the velvet hanging off his antlers around his face? He’s scratching it off and polishing his antlers. I saw him on Bachelors Hill.

Tule Elk Male

The Bachelor’s; There were quite a few of them that year. They were also pretty far away. My lens was stretched beyond its limits that day too.

Tule Elk Males

The only wildlife I saw while at the ranch Saturday was an Alligator Lizard sunning itself.

Alligator Lizard

It was a great day despite the fog and no Elk.

Nikon Df w/ Nikkor 28-105mm| Delkin Digital Film, and Lumix FZ200, Lexar Digital Film,

The 2012 images were made with the Nikon D700 w/Nikkor 70-300mm VR, SanDisk Digital Film

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Thursday Doors 27/52

July 7, 2016July 6, 2016Posted in Architecture, Manhattan, New York, Nikon, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Cipriani, Cunard Building, Cunard Line, Doors, Golden Doors, Manhattan, New York, Nikon, Photography, Thursday Doors24 Comments

I’m back to my NYC files for this week’s Thursday Doors.
On our first full day in the city we decided to get a quick education of the lay of the land by taking the Big Bus City Tour. While on the top deck of the bus we passed this door.

Cunard Line Doors

This building is the Cunard Building located in Lower Manhattan. The doors and entrance looked like they were made of gold. I had to get a quick photograph.

I knew nothing about the building or its history so, I looked it up once I returned home to CA.

History gleaned from Wikipedia

The building was designed between 1917 and 1919 and built between 1920 and 1921 by Benjamin Wistar Morris, architect, and Carrère & Hastings, in a consulting role. While the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House already dominated Bowling Green, the Cunard Building was held in high regard almost immediately upon its opening in May 1921.[1] It featured more than 600,000 sq. feet of space in a modified Italian Renaissance style. Its great hall, which itself was more than sixty feet tall, was the home of Cunard Line and Anchor Lines with a number of other tenants throughout the building.[2] While 25 Broadway is considered to be its primary address, it’s also known as 13-27 Broadway, 13-39 Greenwich Street and 1-9 Morris Street. Within the borough of Manhattan it is designated Block 13, Lot 27.[3]

Its time as a ticketing hall ceased in 1968 and the building was sold in 1971. Its interior was converted to a post office, which remained in service until 2000.[4] On September 19, 1995, the first floor interior, formerly Cunard’s ticketing office, was designated a New York City landmark. The designation included the entrance vestibule and lobby, the passage to the Great Hall and the Hall up to the height of its rotunda. [3]

In 2014 the Great Hall became an event venue operated by Cipriani S.A.[5]

~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunard_Building_(New_York_City)

Nikon Df| Nikkor 28-105mm| Delkin Digital Film

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Thursday Doors 23/52 N°242

June 9, 2016June 8, 2016Posted in Architecture, Manhattan, New York, Nikon, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Doors, Manhattan, New York, Nikon, Photography, Thursday Doors40 Comments

For this week’s Thursday Doors I’m going back to NYC to a door I thought was pretty neat.

I just love all the ornamentation on these old buildings. The brass doors are a bit beat up, but it adds character.

Entrance Door in NYC

Here’s a closer look at the upper details.

Architecture NYC

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Thursday Doors 21/52 5th & 35th Manhattan, NY

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016Posted in Architecture, Doors, Manhattan, New York, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Doors, Manhattan, NYC, Reflections, Thursday Doors14 Comments

For this week’s Thursday Door post I’d like to share one of the first doors I photographed while in Manhattan last week.

We (my sisters & I), were having a tea break after a long day of sightseeing when I spotted this set of doors.

I loved the green portico with dark wood, and gold accessories. What I love most after uploading it was finding the reflections of my sisters in the glass!

Doors

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