“The Village House”
Sunrise outside my parents’ lovely home in California…
Keep meaning to update this page but continue to find myself at a loss for words.
For now pictures will have to do…
Christmas 2009. Lights set by Sherry & Sean. Photo by Sean.
And the the almond groves, that so many have heard about, in full blossom.
Picture by Sherry & Sean, taken in February of 2008. Click on it to see it ‘bloom’.
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
~ From Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Be it in the dead of winter (like now–January 2010) where they stand stubbornly in their scratchy, quiet dryness or when they bloom into spellbinding mystery (as in the picture above) or when they are lush green with almonds ready to be picked in the summer and fall…there is nothing quite like walking through almond groves.
January 8th, 2010 at 4:25 am
was kind-a anticipating the almond trees????
January 8th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
@Nandi – oh those are there!…in the back and sides…the almond groves.
January 8th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
@Nandi – posted a new picture just for YOU ms. nandi.
until you and baby can come visit here…click on the image and then enlarge it.
January 8th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
photos looks so nice! missing home.
January 10th, 2010 at 7:31 am
whenever these trees are in bloom, that’s when i will be visiting. i wonder what all will come up when i sit in silence right in the midst of all this magic… thanks.
January 11th, 2010 at 12:01 am
@Ana – ana, my mother calls this magic wonderland…or the Peter Pan Household.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:06 am
yes yes, that’s it precisely…anything is possible here
May 15th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Love your house. Can I pay you a visit someday?
May 15th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
@Jonathan Fun – all good people are welcome.
May 20th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
the syed farm looks so peaceful and a wedding there would be just lovely!! the almond groves look unbelievable!