show and tell: my street - a day late

My street is beautiful, but, there is nothing to see but trees and green stuff. When you turn onto my street it is a one mile long loop. Each house has a two acre parcel. Our house backs onto parkland and a river, so it's more like ten acres. We have a well and a septic field. All of these things totally freaked me out when we moved here from our comfy urban dwelling.

Anyway, when you turn onto my street you see this. Our house is on the right over top of that hill.

This is my favourite house on the block. They have an outdoor swimming pool - my dream. You can barely make out the blue slide on the left.

This is my new neighbours future home. They are building the house from the trees they cut down on their property - plus a few of ours.

This is what you see on the other side of our driveway:

Show and Tell is brought to you by the lovely and fabulous blackbird.

Posted by Jess at 01:18 PM Permalink

Comments (6)

supa

WOW. That's my dream house -- all that land, parkland, a river -- Gorgeous. What a great place.

Posted by supa | April 28, 2006 01:54 PM

mama_tulip

Wow, you live in a beautiful area.

Posted by mama_tulip | April 28, 2006 05:40 PM

blackbird

lovely
lush
green...
looks like a nice place to be drowning in kids.

Posted by blackbird | April 28, 2006 06:15 PM

Dana

What a beautiful neighborhood you have! It reminds me of the country dwellings in Wisconsin, where I live. I live in a little town--more like a suburb. Someday I'd like to live in the "country" but my husband is a townie. -sigh- Maybe someday my dream will come true!

Posted by Dana | April 29, 2006 08:15 AM

Stacey

My best friend in the world lived on Jess's street when we were 10 years old. Looking at the pictures brings back good memories of Linda and her family. You see, they were English and as such were very exotic to me. They used to have "tea" around 4pm and then supper was about 8pm. "Tea" was of course, English black tea with lots of milk and sugar and something like cinnamon toast to eat. This was all very, very exotic for a kid like me raised in rural Vancouver Island from Alberta rancher stock. Kids, for one, did not have real tea when they were 10. Except at Linda's house.

Posted by Stacey | April 29, 2006 08:56 AM

jennifer

green. emerald, jade, olive, lime, seafoam, puce.

jealous of you and your lovely home... :)

Posted by jennifer | May 3, 2006 08:32 AM