Asheville Impressions - Celebrating Asheville NC

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... And still counting.
 
  That's the Buncombe County courthouse on the left and City Hall on the right, where the ceiling above the ground floor is beautifully ornate and gold-leafed. Worth the trip.
This is the entrance to one of those hidden courtyards on Lexington Avenue. You get to this courtyard through another, so if you don't explore the first, you won't find this one.  
You have to look around the corners in Asheville; poke around a bit. This was taken on a busy area of Biltmore Avenue crowded with people and cars. But the camera beautifully isolated the charm of the brick wall, the blooms on the tree and vine and those missing gold-leafed letters.
There is such beauty in innocence and such hope and joy in those eyes. She says a world-wide minimum wage would reduce exploitation of labor.  
  Beauty, concentration and determination - studying for a nursing degree. The colours in the photo suggest a classic painting.
This is near Maggie Valley; not Asheville, but too picturesque to ignore. The continued existence of the domiciles would seem to be a monument to storm drainage...  
If you are passing by Rankin Avenue, a quick glance down its narrowness will probably not divert you from your destination or delay your appointment. It looks nondescript. One of those streets which lead to Somewhere Else.
It isn't.
 
  Walk down there on a Sunday and listen for a while to the mellifluous, lilting notes of a saxophone played by an unseen musician who is somewhere in the cavernous darkness of a parking garage. The mellow sounds reverberate within the walls of the garage, spilling into the street and echoing upon the walls of the buildings...  
  Opposite the parking garage stands an old, white brick building, its windows and doors painted a pale turquoise-blue. It appears to have served as a carriage house many years ago.  
Antique hunters.
  This is a red and blue doorway in a brick wall. It is a nice doorway.
This entrance is in a hidden courtyard...
off a hidden alleyway...
off a hard-to-find courtyard...
somewhere on Lexington Avenue...
 
  Intriguing doors in an intriguing alleyway off Walnut Street.
Looking up Broadway... for colour.  
  A game of chess in one of those coffee houses mentioned earlier.