Another one from Ferndale.  To preserve the Victorian ambiance, there are no utility poles along the town’s Main Street.  Elsewhere in town, however, power and phone poles are an integral–and in places unavoidable–element in the landscape.  The only option when they intrude is to work them into the composition.

Spent the weekend in “the Victorian Village of Ferndale,” as the town’s publicists invariably refer to it.  In fact the place is not only authentic and impeccably cared for–the entire town on the national register of historic places–but it also feels lived in.