Our Subsistence Pattern: Almost Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Our little house in amongst the green.

24 comments:

granny said...: I just love your patch of paradise Mr and Mrs H :0); June 2, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Annie*s Granny said...: What a beautiful setting!; June 2, 2010 at 7:32 PM
Mavis said...: I think it's PERFECT... I love the woodsy green setting. I'd take woodsy green over a tropical beach any day of the week! Simply beautiful.; June 2, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Roasted Garlicious said...: ohhhhhhh soooooo beautiful!!! i love it!!!; June 2, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Ayak said...: Absolutely beautiful!; June 2, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Anonymous said...: You have a lovely home, Mr H.
I would like to have more shrubs and trees around my house, but we have a lot of mosquitoes here and this would just increase the problem.; June 2, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Heiko said...: Very pretty and peaceful. Did you build it yourself? So now I know what I'm aiming for. Once I paddled across the big water I head west until I hit Idaho, turn right and start looking for that wooden house in the green. It's a doddle.; June 2, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Ruth Trowbridge said...: wonderful, so happy to see it in its entirety, almost expect to see a leprechaun dancing there in the green - we have so much rain it is hurting some plants like the cherries and berries - i assume you both are savoring the joys of the season as we are here, peace; June 2, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Carolemc said...: It really is a Little house in the big woods! Looks lovely and peaceful.; June 3, 2010 at 12:39 AM
LynnS said...: Your home and surrounding landscape is just as tranquil as I had imagined. Mossy rock, shady understory....it's lovely and beckons the admirer to get a closer look.

Thank you for the peek!; June 3, 2010 at 2:52 AM
kitsapFG said...: I would feel right at home there! Lovely setting that creates a nice feeling of retreat and tranquility.; June 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM
Diane@Peaceful Acres said...: Beautiful and peaceful Mike!; June 3, 2010 at 6:46 AM
Mrs. Mac said...: Could the landscape get any greener?:) Looks like a lovely spot in the North Woods!; June 3, 2010 at 8:09 AM
Geno said...: It is a beautiful house in a wonderful setting. I hope ours can look as nice one day!; June 3, 2010 at 8:10 AM
miss m said...: Magnifique !; June 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM
linda said...: Wow... what growing zone are you in? That's beautiful!; June 3, 2010 at 6:22 PM
randi said...: peace...totally worth rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty for, no?; June 4, 2010 at 3:06 AM
Mr. H. said...: Thanks everyone,

I was down working in our driveway and was just amazed at how green everything looked and thought to myself that I should do a picture post of the house and yard.:)

Heiko, the house was built in the early 1930's, but not by me. After you cross the big water and head west towards Idaho you will come to a small water logged field with "No Trespassing" signs posted on the gated fence. Don't pay them any mind, come on through.

Linda, we are somewhere in between zones 5-6...although it feels like we are in the Seattle zone this spring with so much rainy weather.

Randi, peace is worth any amount of effort.:); June 4, 2010 at 6:34 AM
fiona@fionacampbell.ca said...: Absolulely breathtaking, Mr. H! While I love our farm, there is something magical about a woodland retreat such as yours. Thanks for sharing.; June 4, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Naomi said...: What a beautiful place! I love how lush and green it is :); June 5, 2010 at 3:43 AM
Lorena said...: What a beautiful little scene. How far is your garden from the woods?, parts of mine are sort of close and in drier times I think the tree roots suck some of the water out. Do you have any suggestions as to how far away the trees should be? Your gardens are so tidy and orderly, very impressive, mine are more that of an abstract artist meets Fukuoka"s One straw revolution, but I'm working on it! The dog looks so cute and Smart.Do you play games with him like Hide and go seek? Put him in a sit stay, you hide and then call him and have him find you- great fun and challenging for the dog, he might like it.; June 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Jennifer Jo said...: It's so nice to see a picture of where you are. Informative and welcoming. Thanks for sharing...; June 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM
Robbyn said...: Oh, somehow I missed this post...how lovely and lush and green your place is! I love those beautiful ferns!; June 8, 2010 at 7:33 AM
Mr. H. said...: Lorena - our whole yard is filled with large trees so we just do our best to garden around them. You are right in that the trees really do take away moisture from the plants growing close to them. Some things do better than others next to trees, beans don't seem to mind so much and we have had luck with rhubarb growing right under a couple of trees.

Rowdy loves to play fetch, and does play hide and seek with the grandson. He still has a hard time finding him though.:)

I love the way Fukuoka gardens. I need to get that book one of these days.; June 9, 2010 at 7:27 AM

A Timbered Choir

Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling, for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake of the objective, the soil bludgeoned, the rock blasted. Those who had wanted to go home would never get there now.

I visited the offices where for the sake of the objective the planners planned at blank desks set in rows. I visited the loud factories where the machines were made that would drive ever forward toward the objective. I saw the forest reduced to stumps and gullies; I saw the poisoned river, the mountain cast into the valley; I came to the city that nobody recognized because it looked like every other city. I saw the passages worn by the unnumbered footfalls of those whose eyes were fixed upon the objective.

Their passing had obliterated the graves and the monuments of those who had died in pursuit of the objective and who had long ago forever been forgotten, according to the inevitable rule that those who have forgotten forget that they have forgotten. Men, women, and children now pursued the objective as if nobody ever had pursued it before.

The races and the sexes now intermingled perfectly in pursuit of the objective. The once-enslaved, the once-oppressed were now free to sell themselves to the highest bidder and to enter the best paying prisonsin pursuit of the objective, which was the destruction of all enemies, which was the destruction of all obstacles, which was the destruction of all objects, which was to clear the way to victory, which was to clear the way to promotion, to salvation, to progress, to the completed sale, to the signature on the contract, which was to clear the way to self-realization, to self-creation, from which nobody who ever wanted to go homewould ever get there now, for every remembered place had been displaced; the signposts had been bent to the ground and covered over.

Every place had been displaced, every love unloved, every vow unsworn, every word unmeant to make way for the passage of the crowd of the individuated, the autonomous, the self-actuated, the homeless with their many eyes opened toward the objective which they did not yet perceive in the far distance, having never known where they were going, having never known where they came from.

By Wendell Berry

Our Subsistence Pattern

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Almost Wordless Wednesday

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