We have a new art scheme on the front page. This is the general theme. I think we can use this one through autumn.
The photos are from a delightful little road I like to ride on from time to time. I’m sure you can understand the appeal. And it occurred to me that I could just ride through there every so often and take photos as the season progressed. We’ll see how it goes, and, for a time, enjoy the brilliant colors of the season.
When it gets down to sticks we’ll have to change it up again, but that’s not for a long time yet.
Right?
I was out wandering about in the southwestern part of the property and happened upon this white rose which is growing near one of the garden arches. I don’t think I knew we even had a white rose out there.
I’m not sure the white rose knew it was there, either. But it’s given a lovely early fall surprise to the yard, and so I suppose we should thank the previous owners for putting it there, or for the bird or wind that did the job.
It amuses me to still find and learn new things about the place. We’ve been here 27 months or so, and I just recently found that rose. (Maybe it was a bird or the breeze.) But there are still things to learn, little dents and divots to uncover in odd little corners to try to understand. A family of five lived here, and three of them spent their entire childhoods here. It’s a lovely thing to think that this mark or that scratch is a small part of some story, an accident they remember or don’t, a lasting scar from a beloved pet. Some things are just done for expediency, of course. And when you find them, you roll your eyes and wonder why. And then you wonder why you still haven’t found bags of cash they conveniently forgot when they moved out. Because they conveniently forgot one or two of those, right?
After all of this time, these sorts of discoveries are obviously smaller. But no less fun to think on.
So it probably was a bird or the breeze.
Whether you’re looking for birds, putting your nose in the breeze, or doing some other thing this weekend, I hope you have a good one. We’ll see you here Monday; maybe there will be something of substance coming our way in this space next week.
