Now that we are house hunting, the silly sad vacant lot that sticks around next door doesn’t seem so hideous. In fact, today our usual eyesore is not even a lot, but a beautiful, shimmering lake after the rains. We are suddenly the owners of a lakefront condo. Ah, life and all its quirky turns!
The white heron/egret elegant creature that decided to visit has made the lot a mini-wetlands. Perhaps I should take T fishing over there, or clamming…
I do like being NoHo lakefront condo owners as opposed to this charming previous view with the infamous squirrel killing pole in the background:
Lakefront is a definite stress-lessening agent for the sleepless mommy as she reclines on the king sized bed forever (hah!) dominating the living room, notebook (I mean real paper) on her lap, pen poised, musing on the lake’s sparkle and profundity of the stunning wading bird—as her son—naps…
Prison? Noooooo. Paradise.
It’s all in the sparkle, baby.
UPDATE: GEESE
Man, add a little water to a vacant lot and the fowl just keep coming! This morning: a mad honking overhead and then touchdown—Canada Geese. I hope the water and its visitors stay for the winter—but I’m afraid our annual February heatwave will turn the lake back into a vacant lot, with steaming, stagnating puddles and madly darting larvae.
But it’s beautiful for now and as close to Bradford-On-Avon as we’ll get this year.
www.pbrippey.com
Note to self: acquire a digital camera with a proper zoom lens.
[…] 8. February 2009: O Lot… […]
[…] that I haven’t found beauty in NoHo, in our own silly, sad vacant lot that sticks around, or in some […]