About a month ago, Dan at No Facilities introduced the concept of Thursday Door Soup … a mix of random leftovers that could hopefully blend into a flavourful Thursday Door post.
For me, Soup Day is today. With one wing clipped, it’s not very wise for me to venture out with my camera to discover anything new, so I have to dip into my library for past treasures that never made it to a post on their own.
There have been many lovely buildings I’ve found over the past few months, but haven’t invested the time to learn about their history, so their attention-worthy doors sit in my library as anonymous orphans.
There has been the rare building that’s undergone extensive research by me, but its story continues to remain a mystery.
Some wonderful old buildings have been researched, but I simply haven’t felt the inspiration to write about them.
But some doors don’t really have a potential story at all, they just caught my fancy while I was passing by.
It’s soup day in my corner of the blogosphere and I hope it warmed you, if even just a little. For door offerings more substantial than *soup*, visit Norm 2.0 – the host of the weekly photo feature, Thursday Doors. Follow the little blue frog to an entire international menu of great doors.
I’ve already had pumpkin soup for dinner so I’ll just have a tiny helping of door soup, thanks. At least it’s taken me so long to get here it’s no doubt cold soup by now which is fine because it’s kind of hot here. (And yet we had soup for dinner. What else to do when you have a build up of four butternut pumpkins from the weekly fruit and veg box?)
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Yeah – soup isn’t sometimes that comes to my mind when it’s hot. On the other hand, I associate butternut squashes (we call them squashes) with cold weather. It would be odd to get them in summer! I wouldn’t know quite what to do with them … although roasted is really yummy.
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I’m waiting for a cooler day to run the oven so I can roast small diced pieces to put aside in the fridge for salads when it warms up again. And for risotto for the in-between temperatures. Can you freeze roasted pumpkin?
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You could BBQ it outside on a baking sheet instead.
And I don’t know about freezing roasted squash (I’ve never had leftovers) … but for sure I routinely freeze squash soup.
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I’m late for the soup post – but what a fun eclectic mix – and warming for sure – I did not hear of the door soup – but it is s great concept
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I’m sure you have your own melange you could toss together 🙂
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Yes – I sure do – and great to have this as an option – 😉
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Love soup – love the doors. Take care and have a good Christmas.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Thank you, Susan. Best wishes to you too 🙂
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This is such a lovely set of doors, Joanne. I really like the last one in particular, especially how it is framed. You make that restaurant look romantic and inviting. It looks charming and cozy, and if I was walking past I’d be tempted to go in for at least a peak of their menu. If they did dessert, I’d probably park myself at one of their tables 😀 I came from Sue’s blog, and it is nice coming across another blog 🙂
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Hi Mabel! Thanks for visiting 🙂
Pappas Grill is a great place to go … I especially like the patio in the summer. I had lived in this neighbourhood near Pappas Grill for several years but I had never noticed how inviting the entrance was until that particular evening 🙂
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Pappas Grill. Thanks for the name of the restaurant. I can’t just imagine having a hearty burger or steak on a warm summer’s evening out on that patio 🙂 Hope the next time you pay a visit to the lovely place, you have a great meal 🙂
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Thanks Mabel. It’s a Greek restaurant and we usually leave groaning from too much food 🙂
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I love the Dance Theater building, Joanne. That’s definitely my favourite.
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Thanks 🙂 This building really fascinates me. I’d love to visit the inside one day.
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1 degree out right now as I read your warm Thursday soap (I’m a little late to the game, but hey, this is just what I need this morning). I love doors, and you capture these beautifully. Hope your clipped wing is healing nicely.
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Thank you – I’m doing well and hopefully finally healing well. So far so good.
Today, like the past few days, is bone-chilling cold. Brrrrr! A good reason to stay indoors with a good book 🙂
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It was 1 degree here this morning. Yes, joints ache at these low temps. STAY INDOORS – a great excuse to read a good book…and a few blogs or so. 😉
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The doors you have here are all interesting and some are even beautiful! A great post. I don’t think we need the history of a door if you don’t have it. Sometimes our imaginations are just fine! 🙂
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I agree, Emilio. Sometimes I just want to enjoy something because it has caught my eye 🙂
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I had some soup in Italy, and I was shorts and a t-shirt. No it wasn’t a cold soup. It was a lovely mescuia from La Spezia and I loved it so much I ate it again the following night. It’s 34° here today and I would go some soup.
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It’s so weird how we are on opposite ends of the seasons. While you’re sweating in your 34C, we’re shoveling out from our first snowstorm of the winter 🙂
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We are not exactly sweating. We have the odd hot day then its back to high teens, low twenties. Funny season so far. But as you know we never shovel snow. Can’t imagine. Think of it as good exercise. Even though I don’t think you’ll be doing too much of it. 😀
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Nope – I’m not doing any of it … which is actually a bit of a problem right now. Oh well … 😉
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Hi Joanne! How the heck are you?
I’ve been absent for a couple weeks but in addition to posting, I am making my rounds through WP. Hope all is well up your way.
Love those last 2 images. The doors are enchanting and make me want to go inside!
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Thanks Laurie. I’m doing well but I’ve been awol myself and sliding hopelessly behind. Christmas is less than 2 weeks away and I still have so much to do.
I hope you are keeping well! Merry Christmas!
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with leftovers Joanne. I love going back through old photos and pulling them together into a theme. Another thing that I do when I’m short on ideas is to go back to a really old post that … ahem wasn’t as “polished” as I had hoped, and rewrite. It bugs me no end when I see someone has read a really old post, and when I re-read it, I realize it’s wordy, typo-filled and just not that interesting. And BTW, even if it’s soup, you get major kudos for one-wing work. Take care and have a fun and relaxing holiday. ~James
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I’m happy to say I’m back to typing with 2 hands again. Whew!! I can’t spend a lot of time of the computer because it stresses my shoulder, but progress is happening!!
With Christmas barreling down on us, I’m afraid my muse is awol lately and I’m not getting inspiration from anything.
I’m sure when my muse returns, I’ll be bubbling over with things to say 🙂
Merry Christmas!! 🙂
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Nice photos as always and I must say that I love the idea of random soup. I’ve been going through some of my folders during the last week and there should be plenty of random soup for everyone.
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I like the idea of rich servings of soup this winter 🙂
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Still can’t get over how many exquisite door pictures you have. I wish I had more “old cities” to visit.
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I didn’t appreciate how many lovely doors there are in my own city until I started looking around 🙂
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Beautiful buildings and doors! There is a door in the small city north of us, that is on the second floor of a brick building. I can only speculate that there was at one time stairs leading down from it, or possibly a porch. I’ll have to find it again and take a photo of it. Been a while.
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Thank you! These door *tours* every Thursday via Norm’s blog is really quite addictive. I find myself noticing doors and windows in a way I never have before.
I encourage everyone to join the fun 🙂
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After I bought my house ( it was built in 1927) one of my uncles came for a visit. The front door is original, solid wood of some sort, not plastic stuffed with fiberglass. It’s all old time wood. And he said – You can always tell a lot about a house from the front door. He liked the door and he liked the house. I like the house too.
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I like the fact that your front door was a buying feature and still a part of the home it has graced for all these years 🙂
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Some great doors! I can’t believe they haven’t made it to a Thursday door post.
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… until now 😉
My muse is lazy and doesn’t always show up for work.
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Oooh! Aahhh! I was so full of excitement and beauty, from the delicacies here that it is hard to say my thoughts. Your doors are amazing, Joanne. Hope you aren’t in too much misery, nor your son. . .
I liked the colorful flowery doorway and stained glass windows, the arch bordered with vines. The outdoor cafe was really spectacular in the way you captured the “V” with both side angles.
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Thanks Robin. Glad you enjoyed them 🙂
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That was a very warm and filling soup — liked it! The last photo looks particularly warm and inviting 🙂
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Taken in summer during a beautiful warm evening …. ahhh, yes! Those are just a memory now for the next several months 😉
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Joanne, thank you for the concept of” soup day”. We too have loads of “orphan” pictures that did not make it into a blog post, yet have post worthy value. I really like the title of this post and the concepts behind it!
About doors….. there is something evocative about doors and gates and windows, as they trigger an instant curiosity about what is behind them. Indeed in so many countries we have visited and lived in, the magic, architectural and cultural lies behind doors which may be ornate or austere. Sometimes the outside has very little resemblance with the inside ~ a la Muslim women wearing a sober covering when venturing in the street while wearing more exuberant share revealing dress away from public prying eyes.
In Sri Lanka where we are living now (3 weeks) we experience the opposite of what we refer to as “the Amsterdam look”. Amsterdam as you may know has a unique quality of allowing passersby to peer through open windows at ground floor and see clearly life in full display within each home. Sri Lanka is the opposite ~ much is hidden behind doors and gates. Occasionally one gets to peek through an open gate and see a lush world beyond.
The last photograph with glass panes is a winner!
Peta & Ben.
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“You do know your cricket if you can reference a game from almost 20 years ago!!”
I had to look it up, I thought we’d won by 13 runs.
There were clues in the text. My dad joined Leeds Police after his naval service and was a detective for some years. My lad has a degree in history, so maybe it’s in the genes. I have three O Levels in history alone! (But we should skirt ‘past’ that, two of them weren’t my finest hour)
Written in 2000, England rarely won a game from 1987 to 2005. He mentioned the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) and the Poms being on top. It wasn’t Holmes like deduction, sadly.
But yes, you can’t be brought up in Yorkshire and not know your cricket 🙂
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Soup is the perfect meal on this chilly evening! I also love the door with the greenery surrounding it. I would love to come home to that entrance… I imagine what is inside is warm and inviting too. The dance school is so much nicer looking than the various dance studios where I’ve taken lessons. I’m glad to know that you are improving… take good care of your wing.
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I’m highly motivated to have this bone heal so yes, I’m trying very hard to take care of it!!!
Hope you have a great weekend 🙂
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All great doors, but I do love that second from the last one. I think a gardener with skills lives there on the left anyway. 🙂
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That house really attracted my eye when I walked by. It was the combination of the matching front windows to the doors, the greenery and ivy, an upper balcony … Just a lovely place 🙂
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I love your blog soup, Joanne, especially the random photo of a home with a lovely front entrance. I’ve been going through my photos too, looking for door photos since I don’t seem to have time to go on special doorscursions. It’s difficult to come up with something from the past, when I was neither blogging nor interested in doors. But, you never know…
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Periodically I go through my old printed photos because I have a post idea with a particular photo in mind, but then I have to reject the photos because they were so much worse than I remembered
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Wow, some beautiful buildings!
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Thanks 🙂
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You always find the best! Love the big, old ones. Hope you are recovering rapidly!
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Thanks Marissa. I’m going to be nervous until I see the next xray next week!!
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I don’t blame you!
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I think you have put together a delicious soup Joanne. Not sure how you are managing to type and post with one wing ! Sending hugs your way.
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Time and patience 🙂
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Excellent soup! You really captured the warm welcoming atmosphere in the last one, stunning. I love 270 — all those plants, oh so pretty! 🙂
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#270 is going to be the winner of today’s post 🙂
I can never predict which door it’s going to be. I don’t think I’ve ever guessed right.
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🙂
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Not just a thick and creamy soup but a nice side order of numbers (us cricket saddos love our numbers). This reminds me of a recent post where someone served up alphabet spaghetti that cleverly spelt an array of door related furnishings.
Or was that last nights tea….
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Which reminds me – I have to go looking for this layman’s version of cricket I read several years ago. It was hilarious. I showed it to a friend who was a HUGE fan and he didn’t think it was funny …. which made me laugh that much harder 😀
I MUST find it and share it!!
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I found it!! It’s rather long, but I still laughed out loud 😀
http://www.wandererscricket.com/Yank_view.html
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That seems a fair synopsis of the wonderful game although to grasp it’s intricacies so quickly the writer must have been a fan for some considerable time. 😉
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lol!!!
ok – favourite lines … “So as we break for second luncheon, and with 11,200 balls remaining, Australia are 962 for two not half and England are four for a duck and hoping for rain.”
bwahahahaha … I don’t have a clue what this game is about but this is brilliant commentary 😀
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I suspect this line is a verbatim quote from the 1998 Boxing Day Test but I may be wrong.
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No! Really? Now that just makes it even funnier! You mean to say this is actual cricket terminology and not someone just being a smart-ass? (which was my assumption)
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Sadly, not really. It’s not far off, just embellished a bit. I did think he might be referring to the 1998 game which England won by 12 runs! Hoping for rain indeed! 🙂
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You do know your cricket if you can reference a game from almost 20 years ago!!
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Soup is always good on a cold dry day (which t’is here) I spotted the crane! I like door number 4 with the big plant on the porch.
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That one seems to be the running favourite of the day 🙂
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What a scrumptious batch of soup today, Joanne. Perfect day for it.
I love doors–the closed ones are so mysterious.
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Some doors just poke the imagination, don’t they 🙂
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A most excellent, lush, fulfilling soup. I missed the introduction of this concept, must keep it in mind for when my soup is cooked and ready to serve.
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I love this soup concept. What’s even better is that the flavour will change with each new serving 🙂
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I love your leftover menu 🙂
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Some days I’m inspired 😉
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That was a terrific batch of soup you whipped up Joanne. The Toronto Club one is my fave.
Nicely done 🙂
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Someday I’m going to have to write about the Toronto Club 🙂
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Love the building/door with ivy covering its front. Great Thursday soup JoAnne!
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thanks 🙂 I’m a big soup lover!
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What a great soup! I loved the crane reflection for Dan, as well as the doors.
The Toronto Club Doors are gorgeous, and the vine covered arched door, and the horse in the window caught my fancy too!
Hope you’re getting better everyday!
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Thanks! I am getting better – today I could tie my own shoelaces 🙂
For me, it was the little flag. Unlike in the US, flying a flag here is not exactly common, so whenever I see one in an unexpected place, it catches my eye 🙂
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Tying your own shoelaces is HUGE! Yeah, that’s progress.
Interesting little tidbit about the flag. I noticed it, but it didn’t stand out to me like the horse did. Was just before or after a Canadian Holiday?
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No it wasn’t. All the more interesting 🙂
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Amazing what you can learn by focusing on doors. I’m charmed by the the Toronto Club doors, which I dare say, cost a pretty penny. Nice soup!
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The Toronto Club is actually a very interesting place and I really should try and write about it someday … and yes, the TC does cost a pretty handful of pennies 🙂
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Thanks Joanne, both for the shout out and for the crane – in reflection no less, my two favorite things! That first photo has a lot going for it, but I really like those imposing wooden doors at the theater in the second photo. They must be 10 feet tall. The arched entrance at the bottom is stunning. I’d say you cooked up a good pot of soup today. Take care of that mending wing.
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I knew you would like that crane 🙂 I can’t help myself now … whenever I see a crane I think ‘Dan would like this’!!
There is just something about that old church that’s now a theatre that has a huge attraction for me. Ever since I discovered it several months ago, I’ve been back a few times. I would even consider taking up dancing just so I could go there on a regular basis. No – I wouldn’t really, but I would consider it 😉
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Of course my first thought was “could she get hurt dancing…” Sorry. It’s a beautiful building. I appreciate the crane photos.There’s a few people out there who are on the lookout 🙂
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LOL! I could … no one ever suggested I had rhythm 😉
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I’m glad you weren’t offended.
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Moi?! 😉
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On a blustery cold day any doors with greenery or a summer outside patio is a welcome reminder.
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sigh. I agree. Memories of leisurely conversations on outdoor patios …. those memories will have to last us for a while.
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Tasty soup, Joanne. The one with the vines that caught your eye, I like that one too. Beautious. 🙂
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I envision a creative, artistic soul living there – a home filled with visual eye-candy.
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Funny how vines shape the aura of a home and it’s occupants 🙂 I love vines ❤
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There’s a part of me still somewhat traumatized by the book Day Of The Triffids which I read as a teenager.
As a result, I tend to treat vine-y things and large plants with deference … and give them a wide berth 😉
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Ha! I haven’t seen that movie. I guess it’s a good one to avoid 🙂
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Oh God! Did it ever come out in a movie?! I only read the book … but my imagination was able to fill in the visuals!
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It did. In 1962. I’m sure the special effects were amazing!
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omg – now I have to try and find it … how hard can it be? It’s only 54 years old 😉
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Great soup – I love it when doors are framed by greenery – so pretty.
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I live in the ‘burbs, so these kinds of ivy covered homes are pretty rare … but lovely to find in older neighbourhoods.
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Yup, your door photos always make me homesick. And ‘Door Soup’ was just what I needed for my holiday nostalgia! Thanks for sharing. Hope you are feeling better soon.
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Thanks Donna. Isn’t it funny how the approaching holidays tends to make us nostalgic?
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I love leftovers!
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I agree 🙂
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And a tasty soup it is, Joanne! I love the reflections in the first photo and the beautiful hominess of the second to last. While I enjoy the history behind many of the doors that are shared, I’m also perfectly find just admiring the doors and buildings themselves. Not all doors worth seeing have a glorious history, after all.
Soup makes you feel better and I hope you’ll be feeling much better today.
janet
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I agree, Janet and I think that’s why Dan’s concept of Door Soup really resonated with me. Sometimes I just like thinking – wow, that’s a pretty door and leave it at that.
I have several weeks of healing ahead of me, but thankfully I seem to be doing well. Today I could tie my shoelaces. Yay me! 🙂
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Hope you are better soon! In the meantime gorgeous photos and soup is always a good idea at this time of year! xxx
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Soup is the best! Thanks 🙂
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I love these doors, Joanne. The crane photo is great–I am such a sucker for reflections and this one is so well done! Take it easy with your ‘clipped wing.’ You know, that plates not going anywhere. 😀 ps: doc meant that for real. It will not move.
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I’m glad to hear your plate is stable! I’m sure that was a relief for you.
I’m a big fan of reflections too and getting a good one makes me smile 🙂
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I just adore doors of any shape or form despite whether they have an interesting tale to tell. Your soup is a very rich one today! I try to track down the history of my photographs of buildings and often get frustrated when I can’t find anything out.
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I know! I have become quite spoiled thinking that I can find everything I want/need on the internet and then get affronted when I can’t 🙂
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