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

A Lazy Summer Afternoon

     I have lived in the greater Irvington area since 1993. I have explored every inch of this wonderful east side Indianapolis neighborhood and I still have much more to discover. Over the next several years, I hope to document this community and the people who have dwelled here. I have taken hundreds of photographs over the decades and I intend to share some of those with you.  I was in my twenties when I moved here.  I am now in my fifties so there is much to write about.

     Often times, I can be seen taking an evening walk with a camera in my hand. Not all of my photos are worth publishing. Most will never be seen by anyone other than me. My favorite are those that evoke a moment or an era. And so, the very first photograph that I shall share with you will not be of a person, but of a cat. I took the photo on East Michigan Street near Lesley Avenue on a warm afternoon in 2001. I had no idea at that moment that in a few months the world was about to change. No, it was just me and this cat...

Lazy Cat (Photo by William Gulde, Summer 2001)