Our house

I love where we live. I love it. It is truly "home." It's an old mobile home that we've added to over the years. Instead of an old yellow trailer, it's a gray stucco or "piece of concrete" as Bill would say. Setting in the middle of a one acre lot, Bill has mowed, planted and pruned, giving me a yard full of precious gifts.

We moved here when Josephine was 2 weeks old. It's the only home our chidren have ever know. As our children have grown and changed, so has our home. This is an iris, blooming in our front yard. They were a gift years ago from a friend at Fairview Nazarene Church, Ruby Douglas. I'm not sure how many years we've had the iris but I know it's in the two digits and the first digit is probably a "2"
Bill loves roses. Well, we both do. I've always told him not to give me cut flowers because I don't like watching them die. Instead, he's given me live roses. Rose bushes. This rose bush started out in a blue 5 gallon bucket. Bill bought it when we got married and were living in a 1 bedroom efficiency aparment. When we moved here a year later, the bucket came with us. The rose bush is alive and well in our front yard. It's been over 26 years years. :-)
Our back yard.To the right is a hybrid poplar Bill started when Travers was an infant and Josephine was about 4. It's keeps leaning. Someday I worry it may lean into our bedroom. It towers well above our house and creates the best shade!

This was taken from the patio. We had a globe willow. It was old and more dead than alive. Travers and Bill spent Sunday afternoon cutting it into firewood. We found a Bubba Willow that will go in it's place. Yes, the tree is called a "Bubba" Willow.

I'll have to take more pics and post them later. We've had so much rain in recent weeks, everything is so beautiful.