Rocks in the River

 

Someone arranged a few rocks in the river 

 

Ivy

 

Ivy covered walls of the hospital.

St Luke's Hospital, Boise, Idaho. 

 

Old and the New

 

Road work and new construction. 

 

Petunia

 

Petunias in a planter

 

More of Park Center Park

 

Table Rock in background  

 

Park Center Park

 

Park Center Pond  

 

Sunflower

 

Summer Sunflower 

 

Road Work

 

Construction, pipes on 3rd Street.  

 

Eoff-Brady-Hon House

 

Apartments on 2nd and Main streets.   Big old house built in 1899 and later divided into apartments.

 

Idaho Street Apartments

 

Yet more apartments.  

 

Catalpa Trees

 

Catalpa trees.  

Not sure, it might be catalpa bungei.

 

 

Two Bears

 

Mama Bear and Baby Bear.   

 

Neighbors

 

 neighbors

 

Gone Fishing

 

The neighbors  

 

More Apartments

 

Another apartment building.

  Looks to be an older home that was divided up into small apartments  

 

Grace Apartments

 

Grace Apartments 

 

Allen Apartments

 

An older apartment building in the downtown area.

 

August theme, Sweets

 

August theme, Sweets.  

 

Belgravia Boise

 

Dr. Jesse K. DuBois began construction in 1904 of the DuBois Flats, one of the first apartment buildings in Boise.   Renamed in 1906, Belgravia Terraces.

 

C W Moore Park

 

 

 

5th and Grove

 

In the heart of downtown Boise and built in 1940.  Seems out of place. 

 

Rubeckia and Echinacea

 

Rubeckia and Echinacea fill the front garden of this house

 

House on Warm Springs

 

 

 

Park Center Bridge

 

Park Center Bridge 

 

Red Bridge

 

Went for a walk today, over the Red Bridge and along the river.  

 

Colorful Box

 

Power control box.  What it powers or controls I do not know. 

 

Public Restroom

 

Park restroom  

 

Part 2 - Cherie Bucker-Webb Park

 

 Another view of a downtown park.  

The grass is artificial. 

 

Cherie Buckner-Webb Park

 

Empire Building

 

 Entrance to the Empire Building  

 

 

Stairs

 

The fire escape in the back of the Sonna building. 

 

Idanha II

 

Another view of the Idanha.

Tenth and Main Streets 

 

Art in the Alley

 

In the alley between 10th and 11th streets 

 

Window Washers

 

Window washers, Boise Cascade building  

 

Weathervane

 

A weathervane on top of one of the turrets at the Idanha apartment 

 

Idanha Hotel

 

Idanha Hotel 

Opened in January 1901 then transformed into an apartment building in the 1970s.

 

Milkweed

 

Milkweed 

 

8th Street

 

8th street looking north.

 

 

Gazebo in the Park

 

Julia Davis Park rose garden 

 

8th and Idaho

 

 More downtown pics  

Montandon Building and the Union Block buildings.  Idaho building left background and Key Bank in background. 

 

8th and Idaho

 

8th Street and Idaho Street looking south 

 

Downtown

 

Idaho Street on a Sunday morning.  

Between 8th and 9th Streets 

 

House on Warm Springs Ave

 

Another old house on Warm Spring Ave.   

 

Laura Moore Cunningham House

 

First house in Boise and the nation to be heated with geothermal hot water.  The house was built in 1892

by Christopher W. Moore 

 

 

Hospital Construction

 

Downtown hospital expansion.    

 

Woodland Path

 

  A woodland trail. 

 

Walk in the Park

 

Ann Morrison Park.  153 acres donated to the city of Boise by Harry Morrison. 

 

Shopping Carts

 

At the grocery store.   So many carts, how do I choose?

 

Downtown

 

Looking between building.  Idaho Building on the right and a parking garage on the left.  The pointy building in back is another parking garage, and behind that is an office building two blocks away.