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52 Card Project 2022: Week 23: Porch
The weather in Minneapolis is in that perfect sweet spot: not too hot, not too cold, not too humid, no need to shovel snow, no need to mow (I have a mowing service), garden is nicely established.
Yes. Porch season has begun. On days I work from home, I'm now taking my computer out there and working on the porch.
There was a porch in my first childhood home, and I loved it so much, that I insisted we buy a house with a porch. Didn't get the fireplace or the built-in buffet, but I got the porch.
I have a deep affection for my porch. During the years that my house was so chaotic because of all of Rob's stuff, I insisted that at least the porch must be cleaned off at all times. Sometimes when the house was driving me mad, the porch was my only oasis. I put pots of flowers out there and hung blue lanterns that I lit with candles at night, and I would take my newspaper and coffee out there to read in the morning. It is beautifully shaded by a hugely overgrown evergreen bush. Fiona used to climb the branches to get up to her haven, the porch roof. Several home contractors have told me to cut it down. Too big. Too close to the foundation.
I don't care. It shades the porch splendidly, and it's staying.
I got a beautiful flowered bamboo tray to take my plate, silverware, and coffee cup out when I go sit on the porch. It is such a simple luxury that gives me an inordinate amount of pleasure.
I used an older picture for this: the seat cushions are different, and there is a different rug, blue with white stripes. I tried to cut them in with editing tools, but it didn't quite look right. So...not quite contemporaneous, but you get the idea.
Image description: Peg has her feet propped up on a glass porch table, which holds a pot of flowers, a coffee cup, and a newspaper. In the background are wildflowers from Peg's bamboo tray and two moroccan lanterns lit with candles.
Porch
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 gallery.
Yes. Porch season has begun. On days I work from home, I'm now taking my computer out there and working on the porch.
There was a porch in my first childhood home, and I loved it so much, that I insisted we buy a house with a porch. Didn't get the fireplace or the built-in buffet, but I got the porch.
I have a deep affection for my porch. During the years that my house was so chaotic because of all of Rob's stuff, I insisted that at least the porch must be cleaned off at all times. Sometimes when the house was driving me mad, the porch was my only oasis. I put pots of flowers out there and hung blue lanterns that I lit with candles at night, and I would take my newspaper and coffee out there to read in the morning. It is beautifully shaded by a hugely overgrown evergreen bush. Fiona used to climb the branches to get up to her haven, the porch roof. Several home contractors have told me to cut it down. Too big. Too close to the foundation.
I don't care. It shades the porch splendidly, and it's staying.
I got a beautiful flowered bamboo tray to take my plate, silverware, and coffee cup out when I go sit on the porch. It is such a simple luxury that gives me an inordinate amount of pleasure.
I used an older picture for this: the seat cushions are different, and there is a different rug, blue with white stripes. I tried to cut them in with editing tools, but it didn't quite look right. So...not quite contemporaneous, but you get the idea.
Image description: Peg has her feet propped up on a glass porch table, which holds a pot of flowers, a coffee cup, and a newspaper. In the background are wildflowers from Peg's bamboo tray and two moroccan lanterns lit with candles.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 gallery.
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