Plan as I might, I’m always ready for unexpected surprises. In the weeks before our spring break trip to my brother’s cottage on Cape Cod, I discovered and planned to shoot the iconic row of twenty-two weekly, summer rental cottages called “Days Cottages” also known as the Flower Cottages because they each sport the name of a flower.
Along 6A in Cape Cod, heading toward the iconic row twenty plus identical cottages built in the 1930s, I noticed several other groups of small summer rental cottages in the area. What made me stop and turn the car around was a set of five cottages in various stages of renovation.
Route 6A – Did you know? While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California to Provincetown, Massachusetts, the route has been modified several times. The highway’s longest-lasting routing, from 1936 to 1964, had its western terminus at Long Beach, California. During this time, US 6 was the longest highway in the country.
What luck! And what a great compliment to my proposed series of portraits of the Days’ Cottages. Here we had a series of cottages almost set up as step 1, step 2, step 3, step 4 and step 5.
These fine art photographs of these classic Cape Cod summer rental cottages are available as prints, frame artwork, canvas prints and more in this portfolio – https://edward-fielding.pixels.com/collections/the+flower+cottages+of+cape+cod