in the courtyard

When you come through the blue gate
featured in yesterday's post, this
is the courtyard you enter.  The building is
 l'hôtel de Lalande, originally a private
residence built in 1779 and now the
Musée des Arts Décoratif de Bordeaux.

[Linking back to Ruby Tuesday
and Our World Tuesday.]

knock, knock

This beautiful knocker is on the gate
that leads into the Museum of
Decorative Arts in Bordeaux. (If I didn't
live in a co-op, where we have
certain rules about uniformity, i.e., I don't
get to choose, I'd paint my front door
this color in a New York minute.)

[Linking back to Blue Monday and Macro Monday.]