This week's theme is Bricks and Mortar
Grab a photo of a building or anything else you think may fit the theme and post away.

I think these guys had run out of mortar.

haha, cool
I love the colours in that shot - they're very striking. If you described a photo of tiles it wouldn't sound as good as it looks.

This nice little pile is Ham house in Surrey, It's well worth a visit.

Part of next door's garden wall (not full height due to parked car) - the remains of a very large fireplace from the original building.

Cool pictures of bricks (and tiles)! That Ham house looks like it could be used to film a period movie, runningbare

This is a shot of Fort Canning Centre, which used to be the barracks of the British Army in Singapore, but is now the home of the Singapore Dance Theatre. The grassy area in front of the Centre is often used for outdoor screenings of films, ballet under the stars, and other similar events.

This is putting liquid limewash behind old harling.



Limewash flows under the patches that knock to a hollow sound, so that when it hardens it sticks it to the wall behind. This saves re-harling the whole building. A syringe is used to inset it into a hole, and to stop it flowing back out again, that small reservoir is temporary placed there to keep it from flowing straight back out again.

I always look at this mural on the parking lot wall of the local Police Station as I pass. Today I took a photo, as I felt it fit this week's theme well.


"Pura vida" literally translates as "Pure life" but is used in Costa Rica as a catch-all phrase meaning "How's it going?", "Cool", "Everything is great", in short, just about everything. Feliz, paz, amor = Happiness, peace, love.

There are many beautiful old buildings in Savannah Georgia, this is just one of them. Don't ask me what street I was on - I got QUITE lost that day wandering about!

Ooooo, that's lovely Jakeroo! Good POV too. It's not often you see bow glass windows, either.

All interesting photos to be sure.

Lily, I find that quite pleasing to the eye, am glad it wasn't torn down. Is the garden beyond the fireplace in what was once a room? It seems like the original building was quite large?

Some of the ruins at Old Panama

Two farm buildings in Germany:

Lily: I would KILL for a garden wall like that lol

TellyW: for someone born in Canada, the idea of a BRICK barn is verrrra foreign. Ours are all wood (the boards of which people unfortunately steal on a regular basis for resale as "antiques")

Mugaboo: ty for that post, I think most of us don't realize alot of labour goes into all that upkeeping!

Old village house roof.

The Warsaw Barbican was originally built nearly 500 years ago, and formed part of the city defences. Destroyed during World War 2, it was later rebuilt using bricks recovered from historic buildings of Wroclaw and Nysa.

This is a favourite antique store downtown. It's usually so full of goodies that it is hard to move about.

Rough and ready Bar in Mongolia

An old prison in York, Pennsylvania.

Gee, ClaraSue, that sure looks ominous!

Thanks lily, for that information. It looks like they didn't build the house with the observatory then.

Lots of great bricks, rock and tiles. Good photos, all.

These are the flats above the shops in Golders Green

Here are the bricks and mortar that I call home.

Thanks for sharing that, MotherGoose. What a lovely blue sky!

This was a good week! I think the Mongolian Bar was my favourite. I'm loving all your photos from far flung places, Q.
Thanks for playing everyone.

Next theme will be up shortly and is ART.