On the sunny side of the street

I took Zezee out for a walk this morning. She thinks it's a great idea until she's hot about 15 minutes into the walk. Tough luck, sister.
We cruised all over the town of Natividade da Serra this morning. Things I noticed:
I love the red roofs. Very pretty.

The houses are most often painted some sort of neutral beige/white, but there are also a lot of colors. Most go well with the red clay and red roofs, but there's the occasional weird lime green. I really like this one street near Peter's house where there are a lot of great colors.

I'm also rather partial to the house with the purple trim and purple chimney.

Peter says this yellow house was just repainted. I like it. Peter's dad lives on the right of the gold house.

Here's something odd: You see telephone booths all over the place. They're called orelhao -- big ear.
They sorta look like a big ear.

There are houses that range from small and conservative to big and luxurious. Nothing is really older than 40 years because the town used to be located next to the lake, but when they built the dam, the water rose and the town was relocated a little further inland.
I like this house a lot.

I mentioned the baskets for trash. They look like this:

There's a super fancy house behind that wall, but I would have been a complete stalker if I had taken a photo. (Maybe tomorrow ;-)

Pretty much all of the houses have gates and fences or windows with bars. There's a reasonably high crime rate. Most manage to incorporate the bars into the design of the house in some way, but it's also like being in parts of Southern California where you just get used to seeing them. This is a typical street: