If I were under you, I'd be underwater

[sovay]

Turns out most of the cherry blossoms are still in the preliminary stage, but I photographed them anyway. Fortunately there were some nice wrought iron shadows on the side of the Litchfield Block and some flowering trees elsewhere around the streets.



The cherry blossoms are thinking about it.



"Leap, Louie! Leap!"



This one, on the other hand, went off like a confetti bomb.



I have been trying to photograph the fire escapes on the side of the Litchfield Block since we moved here in 2016. I love their shadows and angles.



For example, the shadow ladder that looks more substantial than its iron original.



I've never before seen the door behind this metal shutter in the front of the Knights of Malta Hall. Out of shot, a sign declares it in ornate scrolls of gold on black to belong to the Boston Billiard Emporium.



I love how the ivy swarms the ghost sign on the garage side of the hall. It's so spidery before the leaves come in.



And the angle it cuts against the sky, of course.



It was just a very nice azalea.

thisbluespirit just did an icon tropes challenge for Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) that generated some very fine icons. My new one comes from an earlier batch. I'm not sure why it spoke to me suddenly, except perhaps that it was the colors of my afternoon. And a good reminder of shining in strange times.

Comments

[asakiyume]

The shadow ladder **does** look more substantial! That's the one I'm going to climb! (Beautiful pictures)

[isis]

Blossoms yay!

[davidgillon]

Looks like Boston's a couple of weeks ahead of the local flowering cherries, or at least the one in my garden, where I just noticed the first blossom buds today. There's a stretch on a nearby road where you walk through snowdrifts of blossom when they're all in flower.

And definitely an interesting set of images. Just goes to prove even a brick wall can make fascinating photograph if you have the eye for it.

[pameladean]

Those are fabulous. I love those buildings. P.

[selkie]

Naaaaature aaaaargh. The beauty comes with snottttt.

[gwynnega]

Those are wonderful photos.

[vass]

I love the ivy photos. It seems to know where it's going.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, lovely photos! The cherry blossom is beautiful!

except perhaps that it was the colors of my afternoon. And a good reminder of shining in strange times.

Aww.

[shewhomust]

Thanks for sharing the blossoms! We have daffodils, and leaf buds, and it's April, dammit, but it doesn't really feel like spring here ...

[a_reasonable_man]

Such lovely images! When I walk, I've mostly been taking pictures of signs in closed shop windows, some printed, some hand-lettered, with various messages to customers, including pleas for support, or signs on the crosswalks saying the walk signs will now come on automatically, so you no longer should press the buttons. Your pictures are more reassuring.