Our apartment here in Lagos (pronounced la-goosh, accent on the 2nd syllable) is at street level, with the owner living upstairs.  Carmelita is a retired architect who now dabbles in art, tends her beautiful garden/yard, and is a wonderful hostess, even having us up for a glass of wine & snacks in her garden.  She was born in this house, as was her father, and she is the 5th generation to occupy it.  We have a little private, enclosed courtyard past the door on the left.  Our front door is on the right.

This is the mirror mounted on her front wall to help drivers’ visibility to the people, dogs, and cars coming around the corner. You’re looking at what we see out our front door – minus the 2 goofballs.

Our little street does get local traffic, but not so much that a dog can’t take curl up and take a nap.

I took these photos when we first arrived to give you a look at Carmelita’s art work, but also to know where ‘things’ were when we arrived.  Often we rearrange things, tucking away the knicky-knacky and fragile items, lest we break something!  All will go back to it’s proper place before we leave -Laura