Imagining...

Here is the front elevation of our proposed new house...

It may not look much on paper, but we are so excited to begin a visualisation of our future new home.
Our architect/builder is confident it can be done and, yesterday, we looked around a new house he is building not far from where we live.


Architecture is the stuff of dreams... the bringing together of imagination and reality, and now, when we have secured a mortgage, we will begin a new house and a new home.


Outside on the deck of this pond side home, a baby red-winged blackbird hops around, looking for leftover nuts. Its parent hovers and feeds it from time to time. And, a few minutes later, two mourning doves fend off a chipmunk...

Nicholas

And just before the doves, a cardinal graced our little deck...


We have found that putting the food out at about the same time as our dinner keeps the chipmunk less active, while the birds seem definitely more inclined to visit in the diminished heat of day.


It is definitely warm here, the highs in the 90's are not what we were used to in England. 


That being said, it is a lovely feeling to have the warmth of sunshine and light with frequency. And it was equally nice to have the rain last week.


I am excited to see the seasons unfold here, for everyday, no...really every moment...holds a new visual experience,
a new picture for us to hold dear. I know I have said this with a degree of regularity since we began to write back in April, but it really is, for me, about slowing down and noticing things. In so doing, my life is richer and fuller and I am so very much less afraid...of everything...there is only today, this moment, this breath...everything else is an illusion...


Judy