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"Out here doin' my rounds!" I announced cheerfully as I strode the alley. I made a show of pretending to inspect the tangle of telecommunications cables along the wall.

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In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, were dumpsters alongside 114 Lincolnway (built circa 1880, a "contributing property" in the Valparaiso Downtown Commercial District, 90000327 on the National Register of Historic Places) in an alley between Franklin Street and Michigan Avenue, south of Lincolnway.

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So weird!

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In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, was a commercial building (built in 1921; a "contributing property" in the Valparaiso Downtown Commercial District, 90000327 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the south side of Jefferson Street, east of Washington Street.

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"That's my back door hangin open," I announced.

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In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, was a view in an alley between Jefferson Street and Lincolnway, west of Washington Street, in the Valparaiso Downtown Commercial District, 90000327 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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This was in northwest Indiana but it reminded me of central Indiana, southern Michigan, northwestern Ohio, places like that.

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In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, was a view in an alley between Lincolnway and Indiana Avenue, west of South Napoleon Street.

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Ascend the stairs and take in the view from your newly elevated position— Wait, no, don't do it, that might be trespassing.

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In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, was a view to the north from an alley between Lincolnway and Indiana Avenue, west of South Napoleon Street.

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Favorite phenomenon! This was hot.

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In downtown Wauseon, Ohio, on November 2nd, 2024, was the backside of a commercial building on the west side of South Fulton Street, south of Commercial Street.

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In Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, was a view toward Craven Street from the west side of a bridge on Haywood Road.

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By its hilltop placement, the building has been made difficult to escape seeing.

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In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, were the Vanderbilt Apartments at the northeast corner of Haywood Street and Vanderbilt Place, as viewed from Rankin Avenue south of Hiawassee Street.

The building opened in 1924 as the George Vanderbilt Hotel, which was designed by William Lee Stoddart and was more ornate than it is now.

According to this 1999 article, it was converted to senior apartments in 1969, at which time its ornate façade was stripped and replaced with tan bricks. A semblance of its original appearance was restored in 1999, in part by staining the tan bricks red.

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In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, was a parking lot on the east side of Broadway Street (U.S. Route 25), south of Woodfin Street.

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We can choose to think of them as "friends" to one another. Why not?

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In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28th, 2022, was view in a parking lot on the east side of Broadway Street (U.S. Route 25), south of Woodfin Street.

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Backalley poisonberries in a cute little nook.

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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was Phytolacca americana in an alley between East Main Street and East 2nd Street, east of South Market Street.

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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was a commercial building at 610 E Main St on the south side of East Main Street, east of South Union Street.

According to Ottumwa city directories at ancestrylibrary.com, the building was built sometime between 1924 and 1927. It is identified in the 1927 directory as the L.B. Price Mercantile Company.

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In downtown Bloomington, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, was the backside of 215 E Front St on the south side of East Front Street, east of South East Street, in the Bloomington Central Business District, 85000363 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Flowers of the Siberian Bugloss plant (Brunnera macrophylla) - native to the Caucasus. It's a hardy, rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial, that can reach from 12 to 18 inches. Sprays of small blue flowers, similar to forget-me-nots, are borne from mid-Spring and bloom for eight to ten weeks. Plants are happy in any shady area that stays relatively moist. It often self-seeds, appearing around the garden in other places. Clumps may be easily divided in early fall.

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Siberian Bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla) - Flowering plant native to the Caucasus. It’s a hardy, rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial, that can reach from 12 to 18 inches. Sprays of small blue flowers, similar to forget-me-nots, are borne from mid-Spring and bloom for eight to ten weeks.

Plants are happy in any shady area that stays relatively moist. It often self-seeds, appearing around the garden in other places. Clumps may be easily divided in early fall.

Park slope

We can see that there used to be a symmetrically gabled canopy above the door. I would have recommended making it asymmetrical to match the roofline, but I was not around to give advice back then.

This picture is from 2021, and if you want a fun surprise you should look at this Google Streetview picture from 2023. Do it do it do it!

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In downtown Three Rivers, Michigan, on April 4th, 2021, on the south side of Joshua Drive, east of Portage Avenue.

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