Its been a cloudy day today, soft light, harder to wake up, but in my little neighborhood, the lawn teams were buzzing all over activating the landscape.

I’m working on grading, answering questions, and hope to prep case studies for the book next, but on days like this its harder to be enthusiastic. I went and looked at land at a newish little subdivision today, following advice to begin planning my next steps. Its looking to be a nice place, lots of walking trails, a central community amenity center, I hope they don’t sell out too fast!

I’ve had dreams about gardens, tomatoes, sweet corn, and lots of flowers. I need to start learning about hot weather landscape soon. Otherwise I keep prepping Brook Hollow to sell, anyone wanting a veranda house with teak floors call me!

Moving is a big step, Brook Hollow was a lifeboat for me for the first few years, then finally a home, and now a shell, so while it will be hard to let go of, I think without the life of home inside it, I’m ready to let it and some of the memories go. I’ll always remember my daughters filling the house with life on their visits, them picking out “treezilla” one christmas, and having their dogs and babies there. I did some of my best paintings there too, the reflected light under the verandas is amazing, as is the parallel light of the sunrise and sunset. But not everyone saw it that way, so its time to let it go. I have some more decluttering to do, maybe some furniture to buy only time will tell if one day i’ll come home to a house with no furniture or not.

Anyway, site cast concrete case studies await me!

Be good to each other, cherish “home” if you have it in your house.