Morning Glories and a Picket Fence

In 1993, shortly after moving into my Emerson Heights home along Bosart Avenue, I planted morning glory seeds next to a picket fence that separated my small side yard with the backyard. The results were stunning. For the next seven years, I started over and regrew the vine from seed. I sometimes wondered how it was possible that I had helped to create something so beautiful.

Glorious Morning Glory Vine (Photo by Wm. Gulde, 1993)

Morning Glory Vine (Photo by Wm. Gulde, 1993) 

Bountiful harvests

Although Irvington is located within the city of Indianapolis, it still sits atop extremely fertile soil. Over the years, I have been fortunate to have had some incredible gardens. I shot this image after harvesting my first tomatoes.   I planted them near the side of my bungalow on Bosart Avenue along a walkway to my detached garage.

Tomato harvest 1995 (By William Gulde)  

Front Porches

In 1993, I moved into my first home, a bungalow, located at 602 North Bosart Avenue in the Emerson Heights neighborhood just west of Irvington. From my front porch in the middle of the block, I could look north or south and see all the way through a tunnel of porches.  The development had been built as a middle class neighborhood in the 1910s near a street car line. Sitting on that front porch on pleasant days allowed me to meet many of my neighbors.

Front porches on Bosart Avenue 1993 (Photo by Wm. Gulde)

The author on his front porch at 602 N. Bosart Avenue in 1993