This is my back patio. I’ve talked before about my back patio. This is my place of solace. This is where I go when work, marriage, friendships and general responsibility overload me. The string of Christmas lights around the roof of the house lights it just right on those dark nights when the stars are shining.
I reflect on my day. I think about all the stupid crap that has happened at work that day (and this is something I could do every day). There is a row of trees behind our house outside of our fence and I can sit there at any given moment during the Spring, Summer or Fall and listen to mocking birds, robins, doves, frogs and crickets. I pour a glass of wine and take some smooth jazz on the patio with me and I could sit there forever.
I’m so grateful for my back patio. I’m grateful for most things I have but I truly love this little space on the universe that is mine. Of course it is a bit bittersweet because had it not been for my inheritance I got when my mom died, I would probably have never been fortunate enough to have such a wonderful place. My mom loved working with flowers and I try my hardest to honor her by planting flowers each year and making my back yard a tribute to her. I think she would be proud.
I hope you all have a place like this that you can call your own and one that affords you the ability to escape the mundane every day crap that gets to all of us.
If those are photos of your actual space, it is a lovely one indeed.
WRT2,
Those are actual pix of my back patio and I love that place! I have more I would like to do to it. That is one place that my husband has no control over how it looks!
It looks beautiful and serene.
Thank you so much for posting about your struggles here. I relate to so much of it, and I’m always rooting for you to realize how amazing you are. And when it seems like you have an inkling that you are amazing, it warms my heart.
Sassy, this is really for you, but I’m adding it as a reply to WRT2’s comment, cuz I just want to second her.
I am also always rooting for you to realize how amazing you are. You are amazing. Dare you to own it… 😉