Portals - High Style To Low Brow

With summer coming on I thought it would be nice to revisit the portal.

The above portal surrounds a courtyard in Patzcuaro, Michoacan.

Sunflowers grace this portal on the Ranchos De Taos Plaza in New Mexico

with a decidedly different flavor.

For more on the plaza see my posts:

The St. Francis De Asis Church,

and Ranchos De Taos Plaza.

And you may remember the above home in my post:

Old Adobes In Patagonia, Arizona.

This was the old Bella hotel in Lake Valley, New Mexico,

which I used not long ago in the post More On The Hip Roof.

You can see more of Lake Valley in the post:

Stonework At The Lake Valley Ghost Town,

or check out the LABEL for Building In Kingston, New Mexico

in the right side bar.

For the high style we go back to Mexico

and another portal surrounding a courtyard in Patzcuaro.

These next two are in Alamos, Sonora.

Allison noticed this beautiful brick vault ceiling 

as we were walking around town.

The above photo looks through the front window

 of an art gallery to the portal.

Another two story portal 

surrounding a courtyard in Patzcuaro.

Step right up...

...to this portal in Alamos.

For more on portals see my posts:

The Portal,

and Portals #2,

or go to Portals in the LABEL section in the right side bar.