You do live in an enchanted place and I can see why you are so in love with it. Those goslings sure are growing fast! Outside my front window I see a palm tree and a lemon orchard. It has been abandoned by the farmer which is too bad but there are still many shrubs and greenery. There are parakeets flying about and I can hear a cuckoo bird, nightingales, a word pecker, and peacocks. Sometimes they fly onto my terrace. One day we saw two egrets sitting on the wall separating our street from the wooded area. Magical.

Love your herb garden, Beth Ann! It’s giving me an idea…….

The window beside my desk looks out on my neighbors house about 15 feet away. But there are hollyhocks coming up. I actually peer through my banana tree and meyer lemon tree which are in pots on my desk. Over the roof of her house I can see the tops of trees and the bright, blue Montana sky. Out the front window, it looks up a side street, directly into the ‘hills’. There is enough of an elevation gain to see snow up there, while we have none 6 blocks away!

No wonder you love your new home so much. It really looks like Paradise.

My favorite view at my house is out the back door and just off the patio, where I look to the wooded hillside. Otherwise my view is primarily traffic and neighbors’ homes.

However, I do create vignettes of flowers to paints splashes of color and nature in and around my house. And those are lovely.

I’m in love with the little white planters that your herbs are in! Tell me you got them somewhere universal so I can find them here!!

My back yard is full of big oak trees. From my seat at the kitchen table I can see hummingbirds at their feeder, songbirds at another feeder and my comfy anti-gravity chair that I love to sit in when I have time. I can hear lots of bird songs. Quite often there’s a squirrel eating the dropped seeds that are on the deck. The occasional chipmunk visits too. My daughter’s cat loves to watch all this activity. From my bed, which overlooks the back yard, all I can see is leaves and branches. It’s a lovely view.

You have a gorgeous yard. Ours looks similar but no water & we have plenty o’ dandelions. Looks like we could use some geese. 🙂

love those herb planters with the chalkboard labels! i promise I will come sit in those rocking chairs soon!!

You have a beautiful and enticing place there…I believe I’d be out fishing most mornings! Sitting on my back porch I am always entertained by many birds as they wait their turn at the bird feeders. Then there’s those fast and pretty hummers, darting around the feeders. All our trees are now showing off their new coats of gteen, so pretty…My beautiful red lillies have finished their lovely show…now waiting on a few more iris to do their thing. It’s always peaceful to sit and watch nature at play.

I like you view much better than mine. So much nature and I love your chairs!! That’s the problem with living in a suburban setting….I look out my front door and there are 4 house across the street. Look at any of my windows…. there’s another window looking back. Ugh. I would really love a spot in the country. But, soon my garden will be growing more than Spring flowers, so at least the view from my back door will be lovely!

What a beautiful sight outside your window — from the bright rockers to the furry, feathered, and rooted friends.

Outside my window are rocks and roses, a picket fence, a cottage, a barn, and a forest of trees. It’s paradise.