Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: houses

  • Happy life in a modest neighborhood

    I’ve been pretty happy rebuilding my life since my divorce in my modest home in a modest neighborhood. Here are some photos I’ve taken here over the years.

  • House in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin Nikon N2000, 35mm f/2.8 AI Nikkor Kodak T-Max 400 2016 It sure is taking me a while to share all of my photos and stories from Ireland! I’m a little more than halfway through our two-week trip now. Here’s a photo from near the end of the trip, in…

  • Vacation camera audition: Olympus XA

    I’ve decided to take the Nikon N2000 to Ireland. The results were just too, too good. You all swayed me heavily in your comments on that audition post, by the way. But when I made that decision I hadn’t finished the audition roll in my Olympus XA yet, so I kept shooting. Not that this was…

  • The house at Maple and PoplarNikon N2000, 35mm f/2.8 AI NikkorKodak T-Max 4002016 Just a snap from a stroll through Zionsville.

  • Driving your livestock down Indiana’s Michigan Road and lodging at the Aston Inn

    The street before this house is choked with cars today. But when this house was built, the street was choked with…hogs. Yes, hogs. And they stopped here for the night. Well, the crew that drove them did; the hogs presumably stayed in a nearby pen. Meet the Aston Inn, built in 1852 by George Aston…

  • Snowy day Canon PowerShot S95 2014

  • Goodbye ash trees; goodbye money

    My ash trees are gone. All 21 of them. It changed the view from the street from this (in 2011)… …to this. The company I hired to remove the trees did a marvelous job. They also gave me hardship pricing, bless their hearts. It was still a hard check to write, but based on some…

  • Strolling through Lockerbie Square on Kodak Ektar 100

    Lockerbie Square is the oldest surviving residential district in Indianapolis, and it’s wonderfully restored and preserved. I found myself there on a Downtown stroll with my Pentax ES II and a 55/1.8 SMC Takumar, Kodak Ektar 100 aboard. What a perfect time to photograph Lockerbie’s homes: the trees had just started to leaf, lending color and…

  • Row houses Pentax ES II, 55mm f/1.8 SMC Takumar Kodak Ektar 100 2015

  • An expensive little bug

    I have enough experience with small engines to know that the sounds my push mower was making were terminal. I lack enough experience with small engines to know exactly what was wrong. It didn’t matter: the engine made a sudden, sickly “hwangggg!” sound and lurched to its final rest. Thankfully, I also have a tractor, so…

  • Old houses on the Michigan Road, preserved and lost

    Old houses all along Indiana’s Michigan Road — some no longer with us.

  • Autumn strolls through my neighborhood on Fujifilm Velvia 50

    Velvia is born for sunny days. Cloudy days, meh. Or so I found out when I strolled through my neighborhood one overcast afternoon with camera in hand. But this is the only photo I got that shows how the reds, yellows, and oranges frosted the green trees here as autumn began. So you get cloudy-day shots. A…