This decorated entrance caught my eye

It is a broad entrance with a lot of decoration. 
Lovely metal lace, slates, all to be enjoyed from the busy road.



This entrance seemed suitable to pair with the above

I love the way it comes out from the palms behind it.
Nice colours.  Quite sweet and inviting.

Christmas has come to some entrances

This entrance is quite close to where I live. When I saw that they had lit it up with Christmas lights, I thought, hmmm, how many more will I come across.

Isn't this one darling. A pleasant entrance normally, and with the wreath, extra pretty.

Another nicely dressed entrance with the Christmas theme.

A close up of the wreath on the gate. I love the ho ho ho hanging out of the door latch area.

Quite a dark photo of a sweet Christmas entrance. It was not a bold statement, just a sweet one. It is draped with little blue lights and red tinsel, which does not show up in the evening.

Truncated corner entrances

Truncated corner or corner entrances. A rather rare type of entrance. Most people put their gates and entrances in the front of their property. Here are a few entrances I have found that sit out in front as the prow of a ship.

This single board entrance has the joy of having a Jacaranda tree and a red flowering plant as friends. It is always a bit of fun putting your hand into one of those holes and then peering over the top of the gate to see exactly what your hand is supposed to be doing!

Ooooh, this is such a darling entrance. Love any flowering trees or bushes or vines and this entrance has, besides palms that stand as background sentinels, a youngish Jacaranda tree on one side and a wonderful white bougainvillea on the other. What joy. The fence palings add to the lacy effect of the whole picture, with their rise and fall in height.

Such a nice gate set in the front of the broad faced entrance. The style of this gate is not unusual, but it does have different details from the norm. Here we go with another Jacaranda tree this time on the verge. Inside the entrance were lovely spots of colour. Such a cheery little spot.

Incognito entrances

Is this a tree or is this an entrance? It is an entrance, of course. Just a climbing plant gone bananas. Wonderful. A double opening gate. I do like the gate and fence panels.

Another gate that hides its entrance well. You know, I have a suspicion that the climber is the exact same as the above entrance. It has a prolific growth. Nice wood panelling gate. The cut out panels of the gate, above the handle, allow vision from both sides.

This entrance has a different look altogether. The ageing top heavy vine does hide the top of the steel entrance. Looks like a jasmine or something similar. I have always liked this particular scroll work on top of the gate. We have a smaller gate in the middle of our side fence, which is identical. The days gone by when neighbours actually had gates between the houses. Our gate is rusty and still looks wonderful with its rusty coloured scroll work. My maternal grandparents had two side gates, one for each neighbour. I remember using them to drop items off or retrieve items shared, as a child, while visiting George and Lucy. Which is what we call them now, as we are in the grandparent age ourselves!!

Country entrances

My husband was talking to some country relatives in their yard and all of a sudden he realised that they had 2 entrances in their yard. He nearly fell over with excitement as he realised that these were not 'city' entrances. Hewn from logs, many years ago, from the property, the front entrance is charming. Rough, but charming. I can see that the overhead logs are held on with wire - the upright logs have had a hole bored in them and the wire is threaded through and twisted on top. Light blue plumbago softens the one side.

Here is the same entrance with the house behind the photographer. Some pots, on the left start a log enclosed garden. The tall white pipe holds a weeping pink geranium. A regular red geranium is to its right.

This view of the second entrance is looking towards the house. Quite a lot bigger and squared.

Same view, but a bit closer. A couple of gates, not sure where the dark one on the left opens onto. The family does have milking cows and there are stories of cows getting into the house garden and eating all the flowers and vegetables. Probably a 'good day out', from the cows point of view!

Three delightful finds

This darling entrance is delightful. The really sweet gate, the dark lattice picks up the colour of the house and of course the creeper. I think I have a soft spot for creepers, flowering creepers. The detail on the front entrance of the house is lovely and unfortunately we can't see the front door of the verandah as it was curved on the top.

Another exciting entrance to find. Stark white timber, the gate looks part of the fence. Delightful top of the entrance with its detail in the front. The house behind has the same white picket appearance.

Look at the gate! Very fancy, very different for an entrance. This was a must to photograph. The entrance is quite broad and offers protection from rain and sun. A nice look.

A cottage look

Isn't this a beautiful and delicate look for an entrance. The creeper has such a dainty look. The house, verandah, path, plants all look so sweet.

This entrance is not as pretty as the one before, but I think it still has a cottage feel. The style of house, trees, creepers on the entrance itself, the fence.

I have chosen to put this entrance into the cottage catalogue as it has such promise to become such. Sweet gate, nice low fence, path with urn in a sort of round-about in the path, then off to the left is an arch with creeper. With some more plantings the yard could really become a lovely space. The style of house also lends itself to the overall picture.