Someone bought a large, empty lot on a corner around the block from us. They built a giant black Victorian - a perfect fit for this Victorian/Edwardian neighborhood - with a huge porch, and what sure look like 10ft high windows. It’s like a Victorian on steroids. I’ll try to get D to take some pics; it’s really something else. Beats hell outta the ugly modern boxes what have been built around here, including the one right across the street from the black house.
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Ah! thanks! I have a general idea where that is (sort of between Kirkwood and Decatur?)…
Very cool yards! Thanks for sharing it!
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Completely forgot to mention the marvelous porchiness of the black house U posted. Most droolworthy indeed.
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Rust never sleeps.
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the mum and I will be waving signage at the Hands Off! rally here in KL on Saturday.
i hope that these are yuuuge demonstrations all over the country.
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I plan to be at the Minnesota State Capitol in St Paul.
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At trivia the other night, one of the teams was named, “You get a tariff, you get a tariff, we all get tariffs!”
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yeah, not far from the Kirkwood square (or one of them?)
anyway I went by today, around 2200 Oakview Rd. the Oakhurst square is just up a ways at the intersection of Eastlake St.
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Next time I’m around that area, I’ll have to check it out! I love interesting yard stuff! Thanks!
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We were talking last week about what age did you mature.
I’m going with not yet because I saw this on a jobsite and giggled, my wife knew I had to take a picture.
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Real mature. Mountains, more than anyone, need some assistance for their intimate moments.
(Yama (山) = mountain in Japanese)
(Snicker 
thank you for the picture; you’re doing god’s work)
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I missed it in St Paul. We tried to get there, but mass transit wasn’t up to handling the turnout, and we never made it to the Capitol.
My friend picked me up at home in Mpls, we drove back to her house and ditched the car and picked up her husband, walked a few blocks to a Metro station and took a PACKED A-line bus (in which most people were clearly headed to the rally) to the Green Line light-rail, and waited on the already-PACKED rail platform as JAM-PACKED trains full of rally-goers went by and no one could get on them.
Friends who were at the Capitol were sending pics of the huge crowd and saying “Isn’t this great?!!!” (And it was, I assure you, it was!)
Meanwhile, as we stood on the rail platform, subsequent A-line buses disgorged more rally-goers who came over to the rail platform. At first we were determined to wait for a train with room—we thought the rush would die down and we’d just be a bit late to the rally—but after six packed trains had gone by with only a few people able to get on, we realized that even if we eventually got on a train, the rally would be over before we’d get there (and then we’d have the same issue getting home).
So we retraced our steps, took a non-packed bus back to my friend’s neighborhood, and had lunch. But we were heartened by the huge turnout, even if we didn’t get all the way to the Capitol ourselves. Just being with all the folks on the packed bus and train platform, with all the great signs, and people driving by and honking for us, was very affirming.
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OMG, the Candyman Lego!!! 
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