Doors of North America!

wonder | wander | women certainly made the most of our month together! Aside from travelling, visiting, talking and eating, we indulged ourselves in a feast of picture taking. There were so many lovely things to point our lenses at, but of course we sought out our favourite subject: doors!

Doors lead us to places we haven't yet explored. They awaken our curiosity and call us to investigate.

In our rambles around the city, we were often arrested by a carved entrance, an interesting embellishment or the light shining behind glass insets.

Even on a street where the doors were mostly alike, there were subtle quirks that we could appreciate when looking at them all in a row; little clues to the personality beyond.

Some of the personalities behind these doors must have been quite imposing! What's it like to come home to baroque grilles and scrolling lintels every day? It reminds us of Eloise, the little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel.

Many of the most interesting doors belonged to churches, of course. Growing up Catholic, we always love the care that goes into a carved lintel over a great wooden double door. It speaks of awe but also welcome; a portal for a community to pass through, not just one person.

It's a big country with many faiths...unsurprisingly, there were a lot of churches to see and appreciate!

Small to huge, old to modern, there were places of worship everywhere. The most impressive was the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which we look forward to exploring in a later post.

But just as impressive and welcoming are the doors of New York's museums. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was doing its best impression of a great cathedral, especially with the new Heavenly Bodies exhibition.

Its beautiful little sister, former monastery The Met Cloisters, had such fascinating doors we wanted to give up our own happy homes and live there instead!

There were so many doors we found that we could fill three more posts with them...but we'd like to sprinkle them through our coming posts instead, so you can discover them as we did. We hope you love exploring their hidden mystery as much as we do!