Our little white cottage

Home again after yet another road trip—like true blood gypsies we are. And it is always such a wonderful nurturing feeling letting my heart be hugged by the vision of our fairytale little white cottage…

Tucked away in the heart of trees...
And the feeling of being Snow White having discovered the loveliest 

of tiny cottage after wandering through the forest for days…

My heart is a shaft of light as soon as I get to see the first glimpse of it coming down the hill… as if sprouting out of the ground in some enchanted clearing in the woods… just as I had dreamed for years and years... and I still think I'm dreaming.  For perhaps I am and I haven't noticed it yet?

The front porch it’s looking glorious these days. I have painted the white wicket settee in a lively blue… the same blue I used for the shutters and a few other objects on the back. It makes such a statement against the red door. 

The old sun bleached pillows were replaced by a pretty combination of sweet pastels and some vibrant colors that match perfectly with my newly painted wicker settee…

I’m so profoundly pleased at what we have accomplished in such short time and love when neighbors stop by just to tell me how beautifully the little white cottage is looking these days… prettier than had ever been before--they say.  And I have to agree!

 

 

I still don't have the climbing roses climbing by the front porch

but that's coming too

HERE IS THE STORY:

I spend many years of my life stuck in the labyrinth of unwanted responsibilities, stuck in an office cubicle, bad weather, bad bosses, thinking about how I could escape it all one day, and went through my days imagining that future so I could live that present.  

For years we lived in a subdivision in the city, where huge two story houses surrounded us on every angle. Privacy was scarce while the noise levels soared—neighbors mowing their lawns, working on their backyards, dogs barking.  All the while, I kept dreaming with a little white cottage surrounded by woods and peacefulness.  After many years dreaming this dream, life took us to paths we’d never imagined possible and gifted us with the fairytale little white cottage of my dreams and all the free time I revered to enjoy it all. 

Aside from being all I had dream my little cottage to be in the inside, it also sits on a heavily wooded area, populated by privet thickets and beautiful Hemlock trees; habitat to an amazing fauna and home to a large variety of birds.  All of it life-long dreams of my heart.   

One of the amazing things, among countless of others, about our little white cottage is the amount of natural light it’s surrounded by.  And this it really is amazing to me, being that the cottage is surrounded in it’s entirety by huge trees.  But it sits in a clearing among the trees, and because it’s situated at the bottom of a hilly road, the first impression you get when you first see it, is that it emerges out of the trees, or maybe that it’s plunged in trees—a verdant fortress of sorts and a happy place where sunshine falls healthily and happily right on it and on its gardens… which means, roses, and sun-loving plants and flowers are possible too.  

I’m a pacifist and a Nature lover and always dreamt of my cottage being surrounded by trees, but I also required sunshine in high quantities.  I cannot imagine living my life in a dark-shadowy house with a densely shady garden.  With the cottage in this perfect setting, I get to enjoy both of these worlds… a sunshiny garden that sits right at the edge of a forest…

 Summer nights are magical.  At the first kiss of dusk fireflies light it our little cottage with tickling magical lights.  You’d see them carrying out their itty bitty whimsical lanterns, flickering through evening shadows, illuminating the woods at the edge of the garden.  And you would think that maybe it was the night who so graciously gifted you their shinny jewels or that perhaps you are an incarnation; some part of a Christmas card where every tree and every bush carries in it a twinkling light.   

The pictures above is how the front part of our little white cottage looks today.  This is how it looks just five months ago.