I did such a huge double-take on my way to work this morning that it actually involved flipping a Huey and going back for a second look.
I passed a house that I’ve probably ridden past fifty times. It’s a pretty basic early 20th Century foursquare, with a rough-cut native limestone first floor and a second floor clad in clapboard siding, and a hipped roof featuring a dormer window. Like many such houses, it has a broad front porch with stairs flanked by short, lumpy, stone pillars.
Only this morning, I could have sworn that one of the pillars was actually a stone bullfrog holding a parasol.
So I had to double back and check it out.
Sadly, it was nothing so amusing.
There were two bowl-shaped flowerpots set on top of the pillar, and the bamboo holder for a Tiki torch leaned up alongside of it.
Sometimes, I like my world better.
On the bright side, there really is a super-cute bungalow house up in the Old Northeast that actually has a pair of concrete alligators for its stair rails. You may think I’m kidding, but I am so not!
Has a pair of what for its stair rails?
Try the link again – I fixed it.
Alligators – or maybe crocodiles. Made of concrete and painted green!
http://kcaia150.blogspot.com/2007/05/guest-photographer-laura-spencer.html
The alligators are cool!!