Lens Around Lamorinda: "The Pink House"

"Patchers," as you are now starting to call yourselves, have written us often about the subdued but neat-as-a-pin single-story home at the intersection of Glenside and Michael Lane in Lafayette.

One reader said her kids refer to it as "the pink house" and crane their necks whenever they drive by, looking for the scion of a pioneering family who built the home in the 1920s and who lives in it to this day - and who can often be seen wandering the property in his trademark straw hat and beard.

He's a little camera shy, it turns out, and as garrulous and engaging a lensman as our Thomas Black is, we couldn't quite lure the owner out for more on the history of the home, beyond the fact that his ancestors settled there after immigrating from Portugal - and that he's unabashedly patriotic.

Lamorinda Patch likes the "old school" charm of the place and the reader who wrote us about it says she is taking the kids in to test them for color blindness because, as you can see, the house isn't exactly pink.

Still, it has a nice ring to it.  Tom liked the house for its straightforward, cap-on-straight appearance and so we bring it to you now.

And while we have you, look for more from Tom as we launch "Lens Around Lamorinda," a photographic expedition of life in our two cities and a town - coming soon to Lamorinda Patch.

If you know of any other "Pretty Pink Houses" or notable landmarks you think may be worthy of Tom's attention, let us know!