Mark Metcalfe's Photos

[Mark Metcalfe]

I think I''ll post some of my favorite or recent photos.
This one is recent, not favorite.

[Mark Metcalfe]

Now to try two images in one post:

Oops! Really small thumbnails!

[Mark Metcalfe]

Well, then, how about 5 very small pictures in a row?
These are small Manor pics. (Pictures of my home.)

[Betty Bolerjack]

Mark,

Do you know the name of the color of paint on your house? We have to paint the rent house we just purchased and the tenant has asked for a color similar to that. We're allowing her a say because she has an option to buy and we don't care that much what color it is as long as it looks good. Oh, I guess I would also need to know the brand in order to find the exact color! Also, what color are the shutters and trim? That is one of our big dilemmas. We don't have shutters on the house, but we would have to do something with the trim.

Thanks!

[Mark Metcalfe]

Mark,

Do you know the name of the color of paint on your house? We have to paint the rent house we just purchased and the tenant has asked for a color similar to that. We're allowing her a say because she has an option to buy and we don't care that much what color it is as long as it looks good. Oh, I guess I would also need to know the brand in order to find the exact color! Also, what color are the shutters and trim? That is one of our big dilemmas. We don't have shutters on the house, but we would have to do something with the trim.

Thanks!

The color was "pecos" and I do not know the brand nor if it is still available.
We would have to get a color match from a sample to reproduce it. It is like
a dusty sunset. I don't know that I could name the other colors either,
though my wife might know. There are five colors: pecos, kind of a coral
trim color, dark green and light green accents, and black shutters.

Mark

[Dave McClung]

How did you get five photos in one post. I thought that four was the limit.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

How did you get five photos in one post. I thought that four was the limit.

Uhhh, boss, I increased it. :rolleyes:

[BobHunt]

Mark, thats a real pretty furnace! LOL

[Betty Bolerjack]

The color was "pecos" and I do not know the brand nor if it is still available.
We would have to get a color match from a sample to reproduce it. It is like
a dusty sunset. I don't know that I could name the other colors either,
though my wife might know. There are five colors: pecos, kind of a coral
trim color, dark green and light green accents, and black shutters.

Mark

Thanks for the info. Your house is so pretty. I have liked it from the time I first saw the pictures. Our tenant actually has a small amount of paint in the color she wants which appears to be very similar to the pecos. It helps knowing what other colors you have put with it. I just don't know how it is going to look on the little house that we own. It's a totally different style of house! See the attached picture.

The awnings have already been removed and the bay has been redone from scratch since it wasn't done right previously. The door was removed and a large window put in its place. We had to replace the two windows on either side so they would all match. The siding has now been replaced and when the contractor finishes replacing damaged siding on the rest of the house, we will have to paint it. I don't know how much longer that will be. I have grown tired of trying to get him to finish so he just works on it when he feels like it! I guess it's about time to give him another prod, though. It was supposed to have been done at least two weeks ago!

[Betty Bolerjack]

Uhhh, boss, I increased it. :rolleyes:

You must have increased it soon after we started with the new software because I have five pictures on some of my first posts in the "More Adoption Pictures" thread. :basic05

[Joel Merrill]

I think I''ll post some of my favorite or recent photos.
This one is recent, not favorite.

WOW!!! What a lovely furnace:fav18 I love that bright red switch.

jOeL:basic05

[Hans Deventer]

The color was "pecos" and I do not know the brand nor if it is still available.

Funny, you've posted pictures of your house before, but they look completely different to me since I've actually been there!

[Joel Merrill]

When we first got married this was our heat for 5 years. We didn't have a furnace to fall back on, just this old pot belly, but we did fine. I had a fan setting on a chair by the stove and that was our "forced air." My wife is from California and she is very cold blooded. We probably kept the house a lot warmer with this pot belly stove than would have if we had a regular furnaceand the house didn't have a speck of insulation. Both of our kids were born while we lived there. I had a hard time getting enough wood since we were just renting the house so I burned a lot of dirty Iowa coal too. Now all of the Iowa coal mines are closed because it was so bad. We always had gray snow in the yard but the house was warm.

I bought this stove for $75.00. It had been setting outside and the sheet metal was all rusted out. I work in the maintenace department at a large factory so I got permission to use their sheet metal equipment. I made new sheet metal sides out of much heavier gauge sheet metal than it originally had. I sold the stove when I moved to town. I would give my left arm to get it back.:basic04

Joel

[Charlene Clevenger]

The door was removed and a large window put in its place.

So...how does one go in and out?

Maybe your tennant is the comedian who said he was born cesearian. Now whenever he leaves a room he goes through the window. :rolleyes:

[Russell Metcalfe]

Mark put MY little boy picture as my 'avatar'--I don't know how to do it-- isn't HE cute in his 'avatar'?
Russ

[Mark Metcalfe]

Betty,

Color would dress up your house, too. We looked at a 2-inch color swatch for about 6 months before we decided to be daring and go with the "pecos" color as the primary color. (Joy says the color was a Ralph Lauren color that was mixed
into ---- I forget what kind of paint ---- and that the color was discontinued;
more likely renamed!! She thinks the secondary color was slomething like "Sahara.")

Our house colors are both bold and yet muted (not blaringly bright).
Any tasteful colors would accent your home well.

(We considered a teal base as the runner up.)

You should have heard the neighbors when the paint was being applied!
And then the compliments when it started to come together!

Mark

[Betty Bolerjack]

So...how does one go in and out?

Maybe your tennant is the comedian who said he was born cesearian. Now whenever he leaves a room he goes through the window. :rolleyes:

HAHA!! So funny, Charlene! Actually, if you look closely at the picture, there are two doors on the front. The bay is to the left with a door in the middle. That room is a converted garage. That is the door that was replaced with a window! However, because the front steps are rather high and difficult for my disabled tenant to maneuver (we've done some temporary modifications), she found she really missed that door once it was no longer accessible to her! I'll have to tell her about the comedian! :basic05

[Mark Metcalfe]

Here are some of my favorite (computer wallpaper) background photos (all taken by me). (Reduced resolution for posting)

[Mark Metcalfe]

A few more...

[Mark Metcalfe]

and more...

[Mark Metcalfe]

still more...

[Charlene Clevenger]

Here are some of my favorite (computer wallpaper) background photos (all taken by me). (Reduced resolution for posting)

Wow! Beautiful photos! You could do a calendar. :basic05

[Mark Metcalfe]

still another bunch...

[Mark Metcalfe]

ooops, got one in there twice! another raft....

[Mark Metcalfe]

Last one. I like this "window" wallpaper for "windows."

[Belinda Y. Edwards]

applauds

Thank you thank you thank you

i had saved some of these but lost them though a few computer crashes.

Thanks so very much for setting them up like this. i wish other NazNet photographers would do something similar.

You are wonderful.

[Mark Metcalfe]

If you would like the full-sized verson (better resolution), let me know which and I can send them to you. I'm not selfish about my photos and give them away for the enjoyment of others.

MM

[Mark Metcalfe]

I shot a few new ones yesterday; I do not have too many foggy, rainy, gray photos. Here are a couple of samples. I think I might have done better.

[Gina Stevenson]

is that "Windows" wallpaper "window" picture outside your and Joy's window, or somewhere else? If so, where? Thanks!

[Mark Metcalfe]

is that "Windows" wallpaper "window" picture outside your and Joy's window, or somewhere else? If so, where? Thanks!

I was at a friend's house in rural New Hampshire. Neat isn't it?
Sometimes you just look at something and think, "now that's a
good picture" and if you're lucky enough to have your camera handy,
"click!"

My house is not surrounded by woods; the woods are nearby.

Mark

[Gina Stevenson]

... but somehow missed several of these pics [guess it was loading graphics so very slowly some night, that I closed down, & then this thread went into the "already seen" pile].

As you mentioned your house not being surrounded by woods. Well, that picture was only one side of a house, eh! ;) Looking at your house picture, seeing trees behind it, tho't perhaps this was from a rear window.

Anyway, you also said somewhere: "We considered a teal base as the runner up." Think if it were as subdued as your house's main color, I might just opt for your "runner-up" color ... love teal, tho' I am definitely a purple fan ... but, can you imagine a purple house!? Naaahhhhh .... ;)

I was at a friend's house in rural New Hampshire. Neat isn't it?
Sometimes you just look at something and think, "now that's a
good picture" and if you're lucky enough to have your camera handy,
"click!"

My house is not surrounded by woods; the woods are nearby.

Mark

[Mark Metcalfe]

As you mentioned your house not being surrounded by woods. Well, that picture was only one side of a house, eh! ;) Looking at your house picture, seeing trees behind it, tho't perhaps this was from a rear window.

Yeah. I have trees on the property and woods nearby. (I define woods
by the density of the trees.) My house is on a corner lot. I have neighbors
directly abutting our property on the side and in the back, and streets
on the other two sides with houses on the other side of the street.

Right now, we're covered in snow (though a day or so ago, it had all melted).
I need to prune the grape vines this month.

Mark

[Mark Metcalfe]

A liitle more than a week ago now, I stayed at the home in the picture
and enjoyed some free-range riding on the back of an ATV (second
picture). Not frameable photos, but a record of fun I had outdoors
in the wintertime. (I usually hibernate throughout the winter.)

By the way, the house on the hill is 10,000 square feet of "living space."
You can't see it in this photo, but the owner is building a separate barn to the left.

Cool.

Mark

[Beth Larpenter-Shurbutt]

When I retire, I'm going to buy me a small motorcycle and take off on it, with my camera, and take photos of everything that strikes my fancy!!! The snow is so pretty! Thanks for sharing your photos!!

Beth