Terri over at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives has challenged us to post about all things yellow. This works out perfectly for me because I’m just home from four days spent camping in Canada, where one thing became very obvious — some time in the last century building beautiful homes out of yellow brick was a thing.

We were driving up highway 21 through small towns along the eastern coast of Lake Huron and every town had a lot of yellow brick houses. They were all beautiful, big or small.

Some were out in the country.

Many were along shady streets in town.

The town of Kincardine had so many of these beauties along one street that we just had to park and walk a few blocks admiring the houses and their gardens.

I’ve traveled in Canada a few times and have always noticed how beautiful their gardens are. On this street almost every house had flowers in full bloom from the front porch to the street.

I’ve got lots to show you from our four day camping/bagpiping/starry night trip, but I still have lots of images to sort through.

Bur I didn’t want to miss an opportunity to show you yellow from a Canadian point of view. I hope you enjoyed seeing these beautiful homes.

If you ever get a chance to drive up the eastern shore of Lake Huron you’ll find the same thing we did; friendly, happy people, cute little towns and stunning landscapes.

I’ll show you more soon.
August 17, 2023 at 2:14 pm
How pretty are these homes!
I was just thinking of the years when we visited my late aunt, who had a country house near the town of Port Dover, Ontario. Her house was painted yellow! She was on Lake Erie, though.
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August 18, 2023 at 7:24 am
Yellow is such a pretty color, maybe it helps in the long winters.
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August 18, 2023 at 7:29 am
It really is. And maybe it does!
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August 17, 2023 at 3:30 pm
All this yellow is so cheery! No wonder you fell in love with it! We don’t have much yellow brick in my area — it’s lots more red brick as well as limestone. Both of those are pretty, too, but I’ve got to say, those Canadian gardens are amazing!
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August 18, 2023 at 7:25 am
Everywhere I’ve been in Canada (which admittedly isn’t often) the gardens at summer’s end have always been amazing.
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August 17, 2023 at 4:16 pm
Those are beautiful homes — and somehow they look very Canadian to me. A little like Sarnia, maybe?
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August 17, 2023 at 5:58 pm
Most of these were in Goderich, Kincardine or Port Elgin, on the eastern shore of Lake Huron
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August 17, 2023 at 5:35 pm
I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen yellow brick homes–especially here in the West. I’ve seen plenty of yellow clapboard homes with iconic wrap-around porches in various places. You really hit the jackpot with these, Dawn. Thanks for sharing sunny yellow with us and taking time to link to Sunday Stills!
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August 18, 2023 at 7:27 am
I’ve never seen so many all together, that’s for sure. In these pictures they reads a little more brown than they actually are. It’s quite striking to see a whole street lined with houses in the same brick, all different structures, but always with a steep pointy roofline.
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August 17, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Fun to see all those homes and wonder what they look like inside!
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August 18, 2023 at 7:28 am
Yes that’s true. I was so fascinated by the gardens I didn’t really think about the insides, but I wonder if they’re all modern kitchens and big open spaces, having been remodeled, or still small separate rooms like they probably were originally.
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August 17, 2023 at 10:16 pm
How interesting! You know, it always seemed Canadiens have that traditional English garden thing going on. Probably I should call it “European garden thing. ”
Beautiful. I wonder why everyone seemed to have used yellow brick during that period??
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August 18, 2023 at 7:29 am
Hi Michelle! We asked that ‘why the yellow brick everywhere’ question of at least 3 Canadians we met along the way. They all looked at us blankly and had no answer. Then on our drive home we talked about it (Beth was on the trip with me) and we decided that if people came up to us and randomly asked us why our brick was red we wouldn’t know the answer either. We think maybe the soil is that color along the coast? Or wherever the bricks were made?
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August 18, 2023 at 3:43 pm
Those yellow bricks are so handsome. I had to lookup what made the bricks yellow. As it turns out, elevated lime and sulfur in the red clay turn the bricks yellow when they are fired. But I am guessing you knew this.
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August 18, 2023 at 4:49 pm
No I didn’t know that! I didn’t even know how to look up what makes a brick yellow. That’s really cool to know, thank you!
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August 20, 2023 at 8:59 am
Glad to be of service! As I read your piece and looked at the pictures, I kept wondering how yellow bricks were made.
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August 19, 2023 at 6:52 pm
I love it. A color theme done in architecture. Nice. Looking forward to the starry night pics
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August 19, 2023 at 7:48 pm
I loved it too. Some towns had whole streets with yellow homes. And they were also here and there, quite frequently, in other subdivisions or blocks and even out in the country. The starry night was amazing.
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August 19, 2023 at 7:01 pm
I love all of these. I just love old houses.
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August 19, 2023 at 7:48 pm
I kind of wish I could have gone inside one of them just to see what they were like when they were built. There should be a yellow brick museum somewhere.
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August 20, 2023 at 2:12 pm
You captured such enchanting examples of the quaintness of the yellow brick – nice job. Thank you for taking us out on your adventures too! 🥰
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