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Various stages of readiness

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.

Various stages of readiness
A row of summer rental cottages on Cape Cod in stages of renovation.

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.

Rebirth of a Cape Cod Cottage by Edward M. Fielding
Rebirth of a Cape Cod Cottage by Edward M. Fielding

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