Monday, April 21, 2014

Out the Door

Oh, happy day, Fun Monday has been resurrected. Our task for this Monday is to show the scene out the front door. Our door is new as some intruders decided to kick-in the old one. on November 5, 2013.


Outside the new door is our front porch. Beyond the porch is an old pond that my husband and I converted to a planter. The dried plants in the planter are a chrysanthemum and some marigolds from last fall. Although the temperature is warm today, spring is making a late arrival to northwest Indiana.


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7 comments:

Sayre said...

I remember seeing your front porch as a work-in-progress, but I don't think I ever saw the finished product - Love it!

I really like your red door too. Is there some fancy mechanism to keep it from being kicked in as well?

Now that I am contemplating painting my house, I've thought of my front door. After almost 7 years here, I only just realized that my steel front door is primed to be painted but never WAS! Luckily, it doesn't rot the way my front porch posts did - also primed but not painted! Tinted primer fooled me.

Molly said...

We had a door that we never got around to painting at our old house.

There is a four-lock mechanism on the new door, but if the burglers want in, they will fund a way.

Pamela said...

Intruders!!! I missed that story.
Red Door -- I see an occasional one and I always wonder the choice - and how it was made.

Sayre said...

I wonder if it means the same thing as the red doors of an episcopal church. A fire-engine red door means that the mortgage has been paid off! At least according to my rector...

Molly said...

I thought that the red door went with our decor inside and out, but according to Ask.com "A red door on a house or building can have different meanings. The symbolism of a red door in colonial America was a safe haven. Travelers knew a red door on a home meant they would be welcome and find safety. On churches, red doors symbolize the protection of God. In Feng Shui a red front door means welcome. Front doors are painted red in Scotland to show the mortgage is paid off. In China a red door means welcome and is a symbolism of luck." I like these meanings. (and the house is paid for)

Margaret said...

That is a beautiful door. It sounds like red doors are the thing to have. My door is a beautiful indigo blue. :)

Jill said...

so pretty. i want a door painted apple green. we even have the paint. but i'm not sure it's going to happen anytime soon. ha. weather is nuts.