they are a bit on the puny size but they really are SWEET already!! YAYY!! :)
i remember when i was a young girl, my parents were friends with someone who had a well established grapevine, with a bench underneath and i would sit there and just dig on the aroma that filled the air!! :)
Oh here are some of the photos of that COOL house that had the yard sale this weekend!
here is a picture from under the covered porch, showing the open air porch on the left!!
and on the right is this wall.
The woman running the yard sale was happy to share the story of her father, who built the home! He moved there in his 60's (i think she said he was 63 or 67) and for 12 years, he just built and built and built on the ten acres there.
He built these impressive mortared walls everywhere! as islands, around trees out in back of the home.
and walls up to the second floor.
up to and sided with gates.
EVERYWHERE! and it was HEAVEN!
here is the home itself, with it's MORE than six car garages!!
i say more than, cause each garage was at least two cars deep in!! this place was AWESOME with trees all over!
and wishing wells.
along the driveway too!
And as much as we didn't EVER want to leave, time to go was all too soon but we saw this on the way out! i don't think it was a part of the home we were at's property but these buildings were COOL just the same!
we also saw this place, which also seemed abandoned (there are certainly plenty of those out here!! abandoned homes all over!)
the windows were slim and long, i hope you can see that in these photos! it wasn't easy getting a shot of this place through the vegetation!
this place was pretty COOL too! all these homes were on one of the entrance roads that lead into Joshua Tree National Park and quite ritzy! Many of them having Jaguars AND porsches or Mercedes in front of their homes!
Or they were tucked away in the rocks, like this one.
Stop back tomorrow to see the shots we took at the National Park, since we were so close anyway! hehe It is a BEAUTIFUL place and i am sure you will enjoy it too! :)
thank you so very much for sharing this time!! i will see you in the morning!! :D HUGS!
2 comments:
Good Morning Shirley:)
Wow..those grapes look yummy! My MIL has a fence and an area where she grows Muscadine(ms) grapes.She made jellys and wine from them.:)Do you plan to do that too?:)She has been having trouble keeping the birds away from the grapes.:( One year their shed caught on fire and after the fire was put out by the firemen..she saw they( firemen) had been eating her grapes.LOL
Looks like you have been having fun collecting your goodies.What wonderful finds too.:) I love that table.Looks like an awful lot of work went into it.I would have skipped looking at the price too.hehe
What a cool looking house too!! Six car garages??? WOW! Thanks for sharing the pics with us! I told Jim that I didn't want a bigger house.It would just be more to keep clean...but I am sure I could fill it up with thrift store finds.hehe
Have a fantastic day!
Hugs,
Valinda
Congratulations on yr first grapes! That is wonderful! I am trying to grow some too but our little vine will not grow here with our bad water. It is 3 years old and only has 5 leaves each year, just a little old stick. But yrs looks like it will grow beautifully. Grapes AND shade, what more can you ask???!!!
Those houses are just so amazing. The one with all the rock walls, those walls really add something. I guess the economy and the problem with mortgages has led to the abandoned houses? That's a sad-looking sight, a house without people in it!
I think the strangest sight of all is the house that is somehow STUCK in the side of a mountain, how in the world did they do that, I wonder if it's like a cave inside.
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