You drive through a neighborhood that's neat, green and orderly until you come to the house that's incongruously battered, smoke stained and boarded up.
By last night, the house was a black pit of charred wood, smoke-stained stove and water heater, and a pieces of roof intermingled with doorframes.
Her last album was a smooth blend of country and soul with a twist of heartbreak, which thrillingly articulated the sweat-soaked, smoke-stained, moonlit world of southern noir.
They are preserved in uncouth-looking smoke-stained volumes in lone farmhouses and cottages.
A well was found inside the building and the timbers were smoke-stained, suggesting that it belonged to a craftsman working with fire and water such as a jeweller.
The newish interior may lack the Old World charm that comes from a well-worn carpet and smoke-stained walls, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Yesterday morning, fire crews continued to investigate inside the house, which looked strangely unscathed, except for the boarded-up windows, shards of glass clinging to their broken frames, and smoke-stained curtains flapping in the wind.
From the outside, it's an inconspicuous, grey-green shack with smoke-stained curtains.
Catching a glimpse of celebrities through smoke-stained glass is, for the vast majority, as close to the major teams and players as it is possible to be.
Most of the people who lived there were actors, each with their own smoke-stained pipe and stash that they carried around.