Digital Photographs...Doors, Windows, oh my...

Dr. Pepper Building

Dr. Pepper Door

Dr. Pepper Window

Thought I would share a few photographs I took of this cool Dr Pepper bottling and storage building I found in the mountains of North Carolina.

I love the first picture. Please enlarge it and check out the top two windows.

The second photograph of the door makes me wonder how many workers came in and out. Getting Dr. Pepper to all the little mountain stores must have been a real mission.

The last photo of all the left over bottles piled high in the window. Just a memory of what once must have been a bustling place. I love these places. So rich in history, yet just sitting there waiting...

Windows Windows Windows

Red trimmed window in downtown house.

The better part of this morning has been spent on windows. Yes, windows. Last summer during all the storms we had my front door side light windows blew their rubber seals. I guess this is fairly common in an area that has abrupt pressure changes as we do. However, I have not ever had that happen before.

I am prone to big headaches when the millibars start going up and down, but blowing a gasket has never happened. That is how my window man - Lee - explained it to me. You see most outside windows are made up of two panes of glass. A rubber seal sits in the groove and keeps the glass apart. Let me just tell you by the looksy of the seals on both windows we had some tremendous weather pressure changes.

Good news the window situation gave me some photoshop time/bad news it was a big bill! Any hoo, I thought I would share a couple of local windows. I love them both and often wonder as I pass them who lives behind them.

This window is downtown on the main drag. When people drive through on the way to the beach they pass this cute little pink cottage with this Rock & Roll poster in the window. I get such a kick out of it. Rock on!

As you walk along the waterfront downtown in one of the buildings there is this window. It is actually on the third floor in the residential part of the building. I always wonder if it was a memento from a business, is there a business up there, are they open? What are they selling?

Isn't it funny how a window can be so much? A door into a place and a door to watch the world go by...

The Three Muses Challenge - Windows

This week the Three Muses Challenge is windows. Ooh, one of my favorites, right up there with doors. I really wanted to play around with this theme. Windows can mean so much. I think we give each person a little glimpse of who we are when we see them. A window into our self. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes not. Then, the longer they know you they think they "know" you, "know" how you think, how you feel. Not so. We are forever changing. Our windows are clean, dirty, open, closed, the screen is on....