My friend Jean is one of my most loyal and longest-standing readers of the blog and me since I started this whole journey more than 18 years ago. A few months back, she shared photos she’d been inspired to take during a weekend in Galveston (TX) to visit a friend. She offered this explanation for these lovely photos that I’m sharing here (with her agreement) in our first ever guest post: “The island is big on ghosts, and we took one of the several ghost tours.  They didn’t convince me of the existence of ghosts, but as we stood outside some of the mansions, I thought of your Urban Entrances.  I’m not the photographer you are, but thought I’d share some of the highlights.  Note the fruit and corn on one gate and the fencepost.  And coreopsis makes a magnificent display in a cemetery–as spectacular as bluebonnets, in my opinion.”