Happy Thursday everyone. Meet the doors of Old Town Auburn, California. Auburn is another great city which has its roots in the Gold Rush. It has changed a lot over the years and is growing regularly. It is known for its vibrant Old Town, its mandarins, and its wine believe it or not. I took some inspiration from Norm 2.0 and snapped some colorful photos of its doors for you.
Auburn has Chinese history with agricultural and gold mining workers from the 1800’s.
Nothing like a firehouse door…
This door maybe needs a little work but I like the older style
Makes you wonder what’s on the other side, huh?
A little bunting leftover from the 4th of July
I never grow tired of patina like this
Let’s hope no one ever takes this door down
One of the charming storefronts
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I like them and I love that firehouse! Looks like an enjoyable place to visit.
janet
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Thanks for the comment. It’s a great little city that’s fun to walk threw, eat in, and shop in for sure!
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Sounds like an all-around winner with some interesting history as well. What’s not to like?
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Exactly!
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You found some beauties there. Looks like a fun way to spend a few hours exploring 🙂
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Oh my goodness, I come there several times a year, because my daughter lives there, and I posted the little firehouse at one time:) I
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Wonderful! I’m glad you recognize the location. Thank you for the comment. Please visit anytime.
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Very good “impressions”. Thank you. I find that some photos are impressions left on the photographer’s eye. So, by looking through the photo, you see what was in the author’s eye for a second. 🙂
Now I know why I hadn’t seen these posts, I was just packing and leaving Paris…
Glad I just saw them
B. Good
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I can’t imagine why you would be busy and distracted readying yourself for Paris!? 😉 No worries. Glad you enjoyed.
I’ve always had fun photographing the same thing or area with other photographers because it is fun to see different perspectives of the same thing. Even something simple can be captured in a wildly different way.
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You are right. The Eiffel tower is a good example. I don’t particularly like it, but is part of Paris. This year I have two different angles to shoot it.
I need to get together with photographers to compare notes. (And go to a few expos. Loved Willy Ronis, I will post more of him)
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I love the Tower. It is iconic and colorful. I just hate all of the crowds. I want it all to myself!! What would Paris be without? It would be San Francisco without the Golden Gate. Or New York without the Statue of Liberty (not counting its sister in Paris of course.) What don’t you like about it? I just looked again and saw that I didn’t post some pretty interesting photos I took of the Tower from 2010. They are of the same generation as the photo which appears at the top of my blog. I’ll have to post some more of those one day…
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Look forward to the pix. I don’t much like its “mechanical” aspect. But I’m fine. Now, it was meant to be torn down after the expo. A good thing they left it. And as all Parisians I only climbed it once friends from abroad visited. (And also ate at the same restaurant Macron invited whatshiname, but that is another story) 😉
Long live the Tower.
(And Pray free us of the crowds…)
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Yes, I have never gone up in it because I didn’t feel the need to see the view and deal with all the crowds. I prefer to look at it not from it… Viva Eiffel… 😉
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Viva indeed. There were far less people than now, and it was like a challenge to climb the entire tower. 🙂
Just as an example, in July we finally climbed the tower of Notre-Dame and it was a bit of a downer. Way too many people. Too much protection at the top, mesh and all. Couldn’t see anything, let alone take a decent picture.
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I’ve never gone to the top of Norte Dame either for the same reason. I think I went to the top of the Arc though.
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The latter I haven’t. 🙂 And after Notre-Dame it may never happen. 🙂
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I hope to do Notre Dame some day even with the crowns only because I want to take that iconic shot of the city with the gargoyle in the foreground.
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Yep, but you can’t because there are two wire-meshes. (Suicide prevention!) So a picture is practically impossible. I’ll try to send you one, when I get to that part of the archive.
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Oh well that’s disappointing.
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I watched this town change a lot from my first visits in the 60s when I was a student at Sierra College dating my first wife! I ended the first Sierra Trek that I am posting about now in the town in 1974. My last visit was when I took a break in my hike down the PCT two years ago for something other than freeze dried food. 🙂 –Curt
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Much has changed friend.
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Laughing. Sigh. ‘Ain’t’ that the truth!
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Some good some bad.
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