I thought that was a garage. 
not behind the house
where the siding with the triple window are…on the right side
Looks like it used to be the garage but was closed in to make an extra room.
I’ll have to try to take some pictures of our flowers - the lilacs are just starting to bloom, the early tulips are done, some of the mid-season tulips are coming out, and it’s still too early for the peonies and iris.
That’s what I thought, too.
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This thread only shows how naive I am. I actually was expecting other photos of flowers.
[/quote]Your photo was predominantly HOUSE.
And thus, somewhat predictably, the topic now turns
to the talk of HOUSE …
I’ll bet Tyler’s getting excited already. 
djm
Talk of “House” (one of my favorite TV shows) aside, I supposed that Talasiga would be happier if I renamed the thread “House with poppies”. When I took the photos of the poppies, I had intended to focus more on the poppies and less on the house. However, the closeup photos all had my unintended reflection in the house windows, so rather than retake the photos, I went with the more distant photo which included the whole house.
To answer questions about the house, the house was built about 1930. There are a number of similar (but not identical) brick houses with steep roofs and rounded front doors in our neighborhood. It evidently was the style of a prominent builder in the area during that time. The part of the house in question is now a small sunroom with windows on three sides. French doors separate this room, which is now being used as a beauty shop, from the living room. I am not sure what this room may have been in the original design of the house.
To satisfy my friend, Talasiga, I decided to take some close-ups of the flowers in my front yard. The flowers are poppies, columbine, and iris.
Also, in reply to an earlier inquiry about the house in the first photo in the thread, the area between the brick columns on the right side of the house was originally a porch. I discovered a nearly identical house by the same builder not far away. It still has the front porch between the two brick columns, although it looks like students are living there now. The porch is cluttered with junk, whereas our junk is now hidden behind the front siding.
I like all your flowers, but especially the columbines. 
To answer questions about the house, the house was built about 1930. There are a number of similar (but not identical) brick houses with steep roofs and rounded front doors in our neighborhood. It evidently was the style of a prominent builder in the area during that time. The part of the house in question is now a small sunroom with windows on three sides. French doors separate this room, which is now being used as a beauty shop, from the living room. I am not sure what this room may have been in the original design of the house.
That is an English Country Cottage style house, popular in that era across the whole country. That’s why you see similar ones in your neighborhood. There was still enough of the earlier Craftsman influence (being close to nature) that an outside porch large enough to be an extension of the living space would have been considered essential. That’s why the french doors-another hold back from the Craftsman style- would be there. To extend the living room, and in some houses dining room, to the outside. It must have been the porch. I’d have realized that if I’d noticed the garage in the back before. If it had been a port-cochere the garage would line up directly behind there. Garages in that era were not normally attached to the house, but were separate and always in back, never prominent from the front.
Now, forget about the flowers,yeah they are nice, sure, but the house!!! Take that baby back to original and you’ve really got something there!!! I’m practically champing at the bit. 
I will only be satisfied if you send me your HOUSE …
Is it possible to send a whole house from the Mid West USA to Australia?
a house shouldn’t be much
I do not believe that anybody has sent the London Bridge from USA to Australia.
My thoughts exactly.
Doug–Love the Poppies; a few years ago in TN, in honor of veterans, the areas in the middle of highway cloverleafs were planted in masses of poppies…they were awesomely ablaze with color.
I.D. 10-t–Cool! I didn’t know some trout lillies were PINK! Here in SW KY they are butter yellow. Don’t know that I have bloodroot anywhere, the trout lillies here grow amid wild ginger, blue and yellow violets, sessile trilliums (variegated leaves with burgundy flowers), Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and wild fern. (I love my wild woods-edge along the creek, can you tell?)
Well, right. The house is the backdrop to the floral scene. What’s important is how nicely the flowers go with the house. Spring in Indiana!
Gosh, that is a darling house, Doug. It look so cozy and inviting. Grand flowers! Nice and thick!
The house would go better with the frangipani and jacaranda trees in my front garden. The frangipani is not your yellow and and white flowered variety but a two toned reddy burgundy number.
I also think the house would look more satisfied with a
blue tongue lizard lounging in the sun. I feed our visiting lizard bananas.
No, no, I am not really envious of Doug’s house. This is just my silly way of sharing a snapshot of my front yard with you all. I don’t have a camera that I can do this with.
I love blue-tongued skinks!
The closest thing we (I’m speaking for Doug, too, since he doesn’t live that far away from me; I’m nearly certain they live there, too) have here are the blue-tailed skinks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumeces_fasciatus