Archive for May, 2008

16
May
08

london road

A high-traffic street connecting downtown Sarnia to the big-box stores of Lambton Mall Road. Clustered between Christina Street and Russell are a number of notable homes on large lots. I wish my camera did a better job of capturing them.

for salecottage doorcedar shinglesred brickhospital porchcolonialblue shuttersjust the doorbrick redbudyellow brick classic

07
May
08

maria street

You can smell spring this morning. Lilac is in the air on the heels of the yellow forsythia explosion. This quiet downtown street with old oaks doesn’t house many grand homes but their simplicity appeals. The street works because the feature we’ve become immune to, the two-door garage, is hidden out back. In suburbia, developers would have you believe a home’s greatest asset is its cars. Maria Street tells you it is the front door.

manor @ 144small brickproperly hiddencream porchstately yellowtoo pinkpink windows

01
May
08

vidal street north

Four beautiful homes line this street in downtown Sarnia.