Sunday, January 22, 2012

Seen in Town: Short Walk in the Snow

Shrub, whose name escapes me, sitting pretty in the snow in a pedestrian plaza. The red seedpods are especially attractive against the green leaves and white fence and snow.

Giddyup! Small horse sculpture in town, seems ready to enjoy himself in the newly fallen snow.

Almost eerie, this new bridal shop in town, Everthine Bridal Boutique, located in an early colonial-era house, has ethereal dress forms and vintage light fixtures, in each of its two front windows.

One of the nicer restaurants in town, the Allegre Cafe. On a normal Saturday there wouldn't be any empty parking spaces. Filled with nice cars, too, lol.

I was the first Pink Gardens' resident to trudge to town yesterday. Looking backwards towards home!

One of Madison's historic homes, now used as offices, looks like it could be a Currier &  Ives print.

Ice cream cone sculpture, in front of Ashley's Ice Cream shop, looks right at home in the snow.

A beautiful example of a colonial-era saltbox, the Phineas Meigs house, sits waiting for its next tenant. It was formerly a tea shop and small restaurant.

 There's a green light at the far end of Wall Street but no one around to care. A rarity!

Another one of Madison's sculptures, a lover's embrace, standing in front of a 12-foot high pile of snow. We only had 5-6 inches total snowfall, but this is in the grocery store's parking lot, so that's an accumulation from the entire lot.

A whimsical painting on the side of the Wall Street Gallery, a framing shop in town. That's the owner's portrait, long blond ponytail and all. Hard to see, but the Mona Lisa is peering out from behind the second floor air conditioning unit, lol. Hope that ladder doesn't slip in the icy snow!

5 comments:

  1. The red saltbox house, as old a Harvard U. seems to sit like a clock on a wall unharmed about the drastic changes around it for past 375 years.

    I can imagine Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne having tea while debating whose novel is more gruesome, lol.

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  2. that's why I like old houses so much. I love that they're riding through the modern world while staying the same as they were in what was such a vastly different world. Of course, most of them have been updated inside and look like granite-filled mansions now, but the outside is still historic.

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  3. Love your photo montage, especially the footprints down the driveway. Almost makes me like the snow, lol!

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  4. Am working my way "backwards" through your posts tonight...so...I see HERE is the pristine!! I also love the prints in the snow looking back towards pink gardens...Hope you have warmed up after that outing!!! Looks like it was cold!
    Also love the painting on the gallery...awesome!

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  5. TODAY IT'S ACTUALLY WARM. 77 DEGREES OUTSIDE LOOKING AT THESE PICTURES COOLS ME DOWN.I LOVE THE [ICTURE OF THE PAINTING ON THE HOUSE. HOW COOL. IT REMINDS ME OF A PEEKER YOU HAVE HERE ON YOUR BLOG FROM UPSTATE N.Y..PERFECT PICTURE JUST LOVE YOUR WORK.

    THANKS FOR SHARING.

    GRANNY

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