The house itself is very small with little storage space. (And let me say, finding a place for over 300 jars of honey each year is a challenge - not to mention all the jars of preserves and of course the 5 of us.) But the backyard! Oh my goodness! How I love it. Filled with blueberries, figs, grapes, pears and apples. And trees! Lots of trees.
It was actually the property and all the trees that seduced me into agreeing to buy our home. It is only 2 acres, but we manage to fit a menagerie into it. The home is situated right off a busy highway that I dont like but I try to focus on the bird songs and not car sounds. There are 3 massive oaks out back surrounded by pines, sweet gums, pecans, dogwoods, and a slew of others. The oaks provide us with wonderful shade in the warm months and a sweet melody on breezy days. But my favorite tree is an old, craggy apple tree that sits out by the garden.
We have no idea just how old the apple tree is, but we think it was probably planted when the home was first built. It still gives apples, although they are tart and kind of bumpy. It loses branches each year and juts out at strange angles. But I love this tree for so many reasons. Like it was the only one around for almost 10 years, yet it survived and still bore fruit. It has the most wonderful lean to it - almost like it is leaning over to say, " Here, take an apple!". It's branches are the most disorganized I have ever seen.......yet it keeps providing. It is filled with holes from I am not sure what, but it only adds to its beauty. I love this tree and so many other crooked, half broken, generous and giving things around our homestead because they remind me of what life is like. Life is imperfect and even sometimes a little ( or a lot) broken. But we can still find beauty in it all if we take the time to look....and we choose to see.
**Have a beautiful day and I hope you see something today.**
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