Cindi: The corners are indeed curved, making the ceilings appear to be higher than they really are. They're only 8' 6".
Here's some more bad pics. of living room and dining room. The fireplace is fake.
Being that this was built when it was, there are only 2 electrical outlets per room. They hadn't invented refrigerators then, either. (Yes, I have a fridge !)
The walls are really thick plaster with that "knock down" texture. This place survived the huge earthquake here, unscathed, in 1933...and all the rest that followed it !

alls I can say is WOW I love old houses

So do I; recent construction is always boring, especially the "custom homes". Yours is fascinating.

Are those eyes I see on the back of the couch in the second picture?

Believe it or not, it's an apartment. There are 4 in this bldg. Here's the front of the place. I'm on the bottom right of the arched entry. They're stacked on top of each other and are all the same floor plan. Each apt. is just shy of 1500 sq. ft. 2 BR's with ONE miniscule bathroom...but for me that's fine. They have laundry rooms too, with washer/dryer hook ups in each.

They have hardwood floors, but the floors are a disaster after all these years. They're all carpeted except for one unit. One of the tenants re-did all his floors BY HAND with a tiny electric palm sander. NO insulation in this place at all. We freeze in the winter and roast in the summer. Really cool old tile ihe bathrooms and kitchens and those really DEEP bathtubs. Built in dressers in the bedroom closets, a breakfast nook off the kitchens with a cool built in arched glass front "hutch". It never even had HEAT until the 40's !

They say this was what was considered "luxury living" back in the day. There are lots of old bldgs. like this here. LOTS of them. Like anywhere else, some have gone to the dogs, others are in mint condition. You don't even want to know what's next door to me. (It aint pretty.)

PP: No, not eyes...spots on the camera lens !
That last picture of the front didn't come out right. It makes the bldg. look lop-sided. If you click on the picture it shows the whole thing.
Mike needs to give me photography lessons !

It's still a very cool residence!

Um, also: it's been October for two days now...

I'd be embarrassed to admit how long it took me to figure that out, Porkpal, but here you are:

The thread "Photos and chat, October 2011" in Roses forum

Edited to fix link

El linko no worko (Who elected this moderator, anyway ? !!! )

Oh, shoot! Is there talk of impeachment?

The thread "Photos and chat, October 2011" in Roses forum

Mike said:Vicky,

Thanks for your feedback. Those photos were all taken with one of two lenses I use in the garden: the Canon 28-70mm macro L lens (shown here), and the Canon 100mm macro lens, mounted on a Canon 5D II camera. I used a tripod with the camera's mirror locked up, and exposures set on a two second delay after pressing the shutter release, so that there was no camera shake to blur the images when each photo was taken. The 28-70mm lens is probably the most versatile lens I own (and an older one at that, since it has been "replaced" by Canon's newer 24-70mm L lens). This lens is typically used for portraits and group shots (sometimes known as the wedding photographer's lens), or for moderately wide angle landscape shots, and is far less commonly used for macro work. But it's actually built (and labeled) for macro photography, and due to its zoom range I find it provides greater versatility in the garden than my Canon 100mm fixed focal range "dedicated" macro lens. I find myself using it just about everywhere I go - except for bird photography, when I pull out the big guns (the 400mm and 500mm lenses that reach nearly a foot and a half in length!) I also manually fine tune the auto focus for each shot, by enlarging the image on the LED screen so that I can see details, and turning the focus ring just ever so slightly to get the exact focus I want. Then I use a two-step sharpening procedure in Photoshop to achieve the clarity and crispness I want for each shot. Sometimes I'll darken the backgrounds, but since I do a lot of my photography in late afternoon semi-shade, the dark backgrounds typically happen on their own! Later afternoon light eliminates white-out glare (also known as clipped white balance), but it also sometimes leaves my leaves with a somewhat "bluish" hue which I occasionally have to correct so that they appear as green in the image as they do to the human eye when looking at the same scene in person.

BTW, I love your orb web photograph. Is there dew on the silk threads, making them more visible than would otherwise be the case? I have a lot of these webs all over the garden at this time of the year. I enjoy photographing them with morning dew on them if they haven't been too torn up the previous night by flying insects. I have about 6 of them right now, and call all my spiders "Sylvia", and know where each one lives.

Uhhhh. . . . thanks Mike! I will copy that and get back to your after I take some photography classes this winter,

Me, too. I lost him at " Canon 28-70mm macro L lens....."
I think I'll go adjust the fuel injectors on my truck...it's a lot easier and I can do it blindfolded.

Calsurf73 said:Me, too. I lost him at " Canon 28-70mm macro L lens....."
I think I'll go adjust the fuel injectors on my truck...it's a lot easier and I can do it blindfolded.

Yay! I don't feel so bad now 'cuz, while I read it, I didn't understand almost a single thing written there.

How about I go set up another saltwater aquarium and fully stock it like they do on that show on Discovery or Animal Planet or whatever? I could probably do that blindfolded too.