From One May to the Next

[akirlu]

It's been almost a year since we made an offer on a house in Kent and didn't get it. It is almost a year since we first took a serious look at what became our house.

Quite a lot of changes have crowded into the intervening year. It's interesting to look back and see how my perspective has altered accordingly. The sale of the house we didn't get fell through, as far as we can tell. Neener-neener on them, I say. That other house was between the tracks anyway -- the additional noise from the trains would have been a pretty serious downside. From up on the rise of East Hill, the trains are romantically melancholy, rather than disturbing racket.

In our yard, I've discovered there are three apple trees, not just two, and in the house all the light from those window corners more than compensates for the boxiness. I haven't figured out what all the mystery plants in the garden are, but whatever the irissy-looking things under the big apple are, they're going to bloom purple. Who knows, maybe they are iris. Either way, I do like purple. Meanwhile, the upper terrace of the yard you see above has gone wild and tangly and must be beaten back into submission. It's all one big adventure.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That is a fantastic photo--just lovely.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Most of the snaps I took to help me remember what the house and yard looked like when we first saw it with our realtor were somewhere between unmemorable and actively terrible. I was just taking as many shots as I could to have help remembering how it looked after we were done. But looking through my thumb drive recently, I rediscovered this one and liked it enough to share.

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

Lovely picture. Thank you for posting it. I like the (controlled) natural feeling of your terrace. I wanted to attend Vanguard especially to see your house, but I was laid low by allergies both times.

You will never regret taking lots of pictures. I bless digital cameras every day.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We'll be hosting one of the Clarion West parties this summer so you will have at least another chance this summer.

You're right about digital cameras. I love them to death. They make it trivial to go ahead and take dozens (or hundreds) of pictures to get a few good ones, and without the cost of development, I'm much more likely to shoot a bunch of pictures for the hell of it, to document one thing or another or Just Because. I do enjoy having a record of the changes in the house as we make them.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the house hunt worked out so well for you.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Me, too, obviously.