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Showing posts with label homes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homes. Show all posts

Friday, May 16, 2014

Roaring to the Sea


From my front door during the day....


Listening as other smoke-grimed firefighters, Jen was struck with sheer immensity of this wildfire. 

From my front door at dusk...

Grim revelations of how many other sites weighed heavily on them all, but for Jen, this was her first fire.



They hacked and climbed through brush, always watching the indigo smoke billow in the sky.  Her team all knew that somewhere, a sparrow-sized flicker of flame had burst into this monster.

From my front door at night....


The searing conflagration roared toward the sea in a rapture of destruction and devastation.  

Over the hill where the fires sweep...

Jen shoveled without pause.


Thanks go to Delores at Under the Porch Light for providing six challenging words each Wednesday as a challenge.  The bold underlined words above show her wide scope when it comes to words. You should check out her A to Z Challenge where each day, Delores would provide an extremely obscure word.

Please go to her site by clicking on the stream in the right sidebar.

Note:  My camera and I have not melded yet, so these photos are grainy.  Our house is safe.  Others are not.  

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Where would I live?

Blarney Castle
 Where would I live?  I mean, any place in the world, in any house?

“California ranch-style home” really means small rooms with a narrow hall, small closets, small bathrooms, and small lawn. 

In some closely built homes, neighbors can shake hands through the facing windows.

Where would I like to live?  How about these places:


How about this place in Portugal?




It's all water under a bridge....



I can see clearly now...



Drainage looks good, but on a slippery slope.


Writer's place


Short-term capital gain?


For those stuck between two worlds...

Kinda rustic, but...we'll take it!

There are more of these houses on this amazing crazy site.  The original source site is no longer fuctioning.

Most of these photos are from a friend; I hope I did not step on copy-righting toes in using them.