New additions to the porch. I was inspired by a post by Liz Marie Galvan (who decorates in all white and wood tones, a look very different than my own and one I’m normally not drawn to, but she does it beautifully. She’s also a Michigander, so what’s not to love?
Anyway, she was doing a post for Tractor Supply, of all places, and the white planter/tub and finial are part of a collection by Trisha Yearwood. Liz showed them on her porch steps and she plopped a fern in her planter and I liked it. So off I went to two Tractor Supply stores before I found the two pieces. (I also found a cute top to wear there, also. Go figure.) And I got the fern from my local nursery yesterday morning.
I’m choosing to think of the logo on the planter/tub as a pig that lives on a rescue farm, not one that is slaughtered for food. I like pigs a whole lot. They’re very intelligent and they have feelings and you know the rest. I don’t eat anything with a face.
Back to the look – I like it. It suits the former kitchen island that is now the holder of potting supplies and a pretty addition to the porch.
It rained on Sunday, so I was forced to take it easy. I walked around the property and into our little wooded area. There are several trees down. I suspect most of them fell during that awful snow/ice storm that took down the huge limb from the catalpa. I could hear cracking sounds everywhere that night, which was basically a nightmare.
Daffodils hidden in the woods, from a time when things were less overgrown around here. You have to know where to find them.
Don and I placed this old street sign from the corner we lived on in San Diego here among the catalpas several years ago. Last year Don replaced our mailbox and pole. Imagine my surprise yesterday when I saw that he had put the old one on display. That scamp! I laughed out loud.
I’m off to NYC this morning for a 24 hour visit. Then I’ll be home again to do all the things that need doing and then…hopefully…I’ll be done with the big stuff.
I’m going to take tomorrow off, simply because I don’t want to have to take my laptop along for such a short trip. I’ll be back on Wednesday.
Happy Monday.
Have fun in New York! Safe travels!
Wouldn’t it be cute to leave notes to one another in your old mailbox? I have started leaving little notes to my husband on his desk – it makes him smile. It’s the little things.
Oh, I just love the mailbox and sign in the woods! That Don. How cute that it was a surprise to find it!
Ferns have always grown well for me and I’ve loved them since the sixties. We buy two every season to hang from the pergola at the lake and they love it there—all that moisture in the air and shade from the forest. When we get there in the spring we get two little ones and by fall we have two monstrous ferns! Used to transfer them to the house in town for the winter, but now we just give them away to neighbors and it always makes me sad to leave them.
Enjoy your fast trip into the city.
I love the now potting bench on the porch and the styling is so pretty. I love the mailbox and street sign in the woods. Have a great visit in NYC!
Enjoy your time away and safe travels!
If you leave the mailbox open, you might attract a bird to make a nest and raise some babies!
I thought of The Lake House when I saw the mailbox. What a sweet little hiding spot!
The porch looks very nice. I actually enjoy wandering through Tractor Supply and Farm and Fleet, etc. as they do have some different things in there. Glad you get a day off from all things tomorrow. Enjoy your trip and safe travels!
I am loving that fern on your new potting bench. And that mailbox? Priceless…that Don! Have a fun visit in the city! ;)
Gorgeous weather today to be in the city. Glad to hear you’re taking a day off too – because I don’t know how you do it – blogging every day. I love yacking & I love writing – but I still don’t think I could it EVERY single day – for an audience, at least. Must become a little exhausting after a while, I’m sure. But I certainly admire your steely discipline. That’s something else I wish I had! Well, have fun in NY. Browse around some bookstore with Don & have a really great cup of coffee, maybe. Peace.
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I echo t’s comments about leaving notes for each other in the mailbox. Or, leave notes from Henry!
I had believed ferns were perennial and indestructible until we had our very bad Alabama drought two summers ago. My fern garden did not come back from that one.
Have a nice trip, Claudia. Perhaps we will end up talking among ourselves again while you are away?
Your porch looks beautiful and the white dresser and fern are the finishing touches. Stunning.
Enjoy your time with Don and make more memories together.
My husband and I have recently adopted a plant-based diet and I would love to get a few ideas from a real vegan about what you eat. I don’t want to take away from your usual chats about life around your cottage (and Broadway, LOVE Broadway.) but would appreciate some practical insight. Enjoy your visit.
Your porch looks nice and so inviting. Have a good time in New York with Don.
Marilyn
Oh that hubby of yours…I bet he has been waiting for you to find that mail box in the woods…you two will have a good laugh about that one..love the street sign also!…Have a good visit…we will see you Wednesday!
i love your life!
yes. even with all the snow and ice and lugging stuff and going back and forth and ….
well. i just love it.
and… ” I don’t eat anything with a face. ”
neither do i! especially a pig. i saw Babe years ago. enough said!
I love the white cabinet, always have. At my other home I had my hubby put a mailbox at the opening to my veg garden. I kept gloves, hand tools, and string for tying up tomato plants in it throughout the gardening season. I loved it!
I keep all of that stuff in the cabinet now. It really helps for storage.