As I sit and look out the windows from the inside of the house, I noticed how pretty our Fall is here at Brambly Pines. You get so used to your surroundings, day by day that you need to just stop and look at the world around you. I remember how excited I was to wake up every morning when we first moved up here just to see what my day would be like. Now I have to make myself stop and really look at where we live and realize how lucky we are. Our beautiful 22 acres are amazing! It's time to take a Fall walk to the back woods and take in the scenery. I haven't walked back there in way over a year. Maybe take a bag to collect little pine cones or what ever I find back there. Ya just never know. Soon the pretty leaves will all be on the ground and the bare trees will be covered in snow ( I hope) . Another wonderful season will soon pass the honor on to the next one. Four seasons....the only way to live!!!!
Friday, October 30, 2015
Fall at Brambly Pines
As I sit and look out the windows from the inside of the house, I noticed how pretty our Fall is here at Brambly Pines. You get so used to your surroundings, day by day that you need to just stop and look at the world around you. I remember how excited I was to wake up every morning when we first moved up here just to see what my day would be like. Now I have to make myself stop and really look at where we live and realize how lucky we are. Our beautiful 22 acres are amazing! It's time to take a Fall walk to the back woods and take in the scenery. I haven't walked back there in way over a year. Maybe take a bag to collect little pine cones or what ever I find back there. Ya just never know. Soon the pretty leaves will all be on the ground and the bare trees will be covered in snow ( I hope) . Another wonderful season will soon pass the honor on to the next one. Four seasons....the only way to live!!!!
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Second to Brambly Pines
1903 Farm House |
Back yard |
Old barn |
On the way home from our Fall drive to the quilt shop, Chuck took a different way. It brought us by this beautiful 1903 farm house. It was going up for auction the next day. Of course we stopped! I just HAD to see the inside of this house! As soon as I walked into the front door, I fell in love. My mind started racing with how I would decorate it with all our things. ...yes....I would sooooo live there! Well, when I really made myself think about it, I could NEVER give up Brambly Pines and our house now but oh how I wanted to live in that house too. As you walked in the front door, you were in a wide hallway. On the left, was the " parlor"....with a bay window, fire place and wooden floors. On the right of the hallway was a huge bedroom with a fire place. ( I would have made that our TV room and the "parlor " a sitting room ) There was a formal dining room and a kitchen that had been redone with blue/white tiles. I know...see....my stuff would have fit right in. A laundry room off the back of the kitchen and on the side of the kitchen was a small screened porch....with a stain glass door between the two. There was a bathroom and a small den downstairs also. Upstairs...ya had to be care full or you would hit your head on the beam for the floor upstairs, going up the stairs.You had to duck. As you come off the stairs, you were in a huge, wide hallway. Big enough to be a small room. There were 3 bedrooms and a bathroom up there. All with beautiful windows and claw footed tubs. My mind was " painting and decorating" each room as I stood in the middle of them. Not only was the house beautiful but the area outside was too. The house was sitting on 4 1/2 acres, with an old barn and a wooden garage. The view out the back was nothing but land to the mountains in the forest. The front view of the house was a huge field which had just been harvested. As far as you could see...was the field. Right off the side yard by the kitchen was a garden big enough to grow plenty of food in the summer. Yes, if I wasn't in love with Brambly Pines so much, we would have been going to that auction the next day. What a beautiful place to live.
Land of Cotton
"Yes, Virginia! there are RED barns". |
The land of cotton! |
pure white! |
A Beautiful Fall Day
Driving up the mountain..... |
The kudzu is still hanging on |
There is a saying that says....".I'm glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." Nothing could be truer but you have to live far enough north for it to be true and we do! We set out one morning last week to the quilt shop where I get my quilts, quilted and the drive couldn't have been any prettier in the country and up the mountain. Even though I feel like I have lived here all my life now, I still get excited for each season to a peer and bring it's glory. Fall can not be out done!
" October gave a party; the leaves by the hundreds came- the chestnuts, oaks and maples, and leaves of every name. ...( George Cooper) I'm sure glad I was invited also!
" October gave a party; the leaves by the hundreds came- the chestnuts, oaks and maples, and leaves of every name. ...( George Cooper) I'm sure glad I was invited also!
Monday, October 19, 2015
The Signs of Fall
Pumpkins on the studio porch |
A basket full of fall flowers |
Wood at the end of the drive way |
Ready to be split |
Re-wrapping the green house |
Bulbs to be planted.... |
so there will be a pretty Spring |
Apple Butter Time
September means it's Apple Time! Time to go to one of the orchards and get apples. We have one not too far from our house. For the past couple of years we have been going there for our apples. I like to make apple butter every Fall. It takes all day in the crock pot but it makes the house smell so good....like " Fall". This year I made two batches so that means two days of wonderful smells. I also made a fresh apple pie. There is nothing else like it. Forget canned pie filling! September is just the beginning of my favorite time of year.
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