I thought I’d play along. I don’t have the great photos that Pea and her pal Kathleen Marie (and others) have and some of mine are from last year. We have lived in SE Pennsylvania and in this house for 21 years now. We have watched a lot of cornfields give way to housing developments, especially across the road and around the corner. Our road just gets busier and busier, though you do look like you are on a country road-it’s just a thoroughfare to get the two supermarkets (and shopping centers) about a mile away from here.

It’s really hard to stop and take photos on my busy back road. I live on the west end of the road and these were taken last week on the east end where there is more scenery:

Around this same area, the movie ‘The Village’ was filmed a few years ago.

Along our road, which stretches many miles, there are also mushroom houses as that’s the main industry around these parts. You can check out more photos from our outing last weekend.

So this is my house and side yard. You aren’t seeing the family room windows(left) or two of the three bedroom windows (right).

That is my new front window, installed May, 2006. Bri added the brick sidewalk about 12 or so years ago.

This is one of the Chestnut trees that I don’t care for as they are so messy throughout the year. I have 3 round gardens further back. The nearest garden has irises, the dinner plate hibiscus and hollyhock and is surrounded by little round box hedges. To the right of that (not shown) is a small rose bed I added last fall. Just recently, something made a snack of all the buds! The next garden back is my ‘seed’ garden where I plant sunflowers, cosmos and zinnias. You see that grape arbor? It gets full of sticky wild roses and the grapes are diseased. I want to tear it down and add an array of different color azaleas there. We have an old tractor tire garden where Bri mainly plants hot peppers. Beyond that is the veggie patch. I noticed that the apple tree that fell down a few weeks ago looks pretty good in this photo. We have a lot of yard that is just a grassy extension.

I may be adding more photos, who knows?

We live closer to ‘the next town’ then we do our actual mailing address town, so I feel more of a bond with ‘that’ town. Bri also works on the main street of that town now. I like the town a lot. My maternal great grandfather lived there for a year and he always talked about KS fondly. And we have Longwood Gardens about 8 minutes away! Philadelphia is about 35 miles away and we don’t venture there at often. Down the road about five miles, is the turn off toward Wilmington, DE. That is a beautiful road. And we go to Wilmington a little more often then we go to Philly.

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Here’s something completely different. I was home all day until 4 pm and ran down to the grocery store. Bri and I went out to grab a quick dinner. I picked up the phone to look at the caller ID  around 8:30 and some ‘private caller’ had called here at 4:22 and didn’t say anything. I had just scheduled a vet visit for the kitty and a mammogram, so maybe one of them was calling back. But I had also been to the gyn and had a test done. Of course I got nervous. I went online and it said it takes up to 3 weeks to get the results for a pap. I couldn’t help but think about that. I guess they will call tomorrow.