virtual housekeeping

I’ve been wondering for a while now if I should ditch the Gallery page on this site. A Gallery seemed like a nice idea when I was starting out, but I don’t see myself using it much now that I’m just putting images straight into my blog posts. So, out it goes, but there’ll be a new page – a virtual bookshelf – coming soon, maybe even next week (oh the joys of Spring Break!!) I’ve moved old Gallery images to the blog posts that referred to them wherever possible, but my first Gallery post was free-standing, so I’m reproducing it again here… And why not, since it’s about one of my favourite places? (I bought my parents a Green-level Subscription to the Alnwick Garden for Christmas, and they’re looking forward to seeing it in all its spring glory when it opens again on April 1.)

Favourite places: The Treehouse at Alnwick in England

A tree house complex, built around and incorporating some larger, old trees (leaving space for them to continue growing). In addition to an excellent restaurant (book ahead!), there are other little shops, deck areas, walkways and bridges threading through the trees. It’s lovely.

Inspirational project and design... and with a great restaurant too.

almost there…

Writing this in snowy northern England… snow back home too, and it would be lovely to see the trees on my land covered in white stuff, but that will have to wait. Just heard that the sellers want to close in early January. I won’t quite be ready to join them, but with luck my signature will be added to the mix some time in mid January, and my off grid project will begin for real! I’ve been thinking about what to call the land – well, the cabin really (or earth house or tree house or yurt or whatever it turns out to be once it’s built), and want to have Silver Tree in there somehow. Silver Tree Lodge? If there aren’t already any silvery trees (and I think there are), I’ll plant one.  Festive greetings to all as December draws to a close. How quickly this year has gone!