How big is your house?       

And how big is your home?

Our house is only 900 square feet, and a lot of that is compromised by furniture, a big dog and books. That’s why I choose to think of my home in a much broader sense than just the four walls that hold up the roof I find shelter under.   Our home stretches out about seven acres around out house, mostly to the back and into Carnation Marsh bird sanctuary. Because the property line is not defined by a neighbor’s fence or hedge it is really hard to know how big our home is.  It my mind it stretches even farther some days to either end of out valley road, especially when I am on foot.

In a few days I will be getting on a jet to head home. The home of my youth Milwaukee, and the home of my parents in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. All places I still call home. Though when I get on the jet at Billy Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee on December 3^rd I will also be flying home.

I love this expansive feeling of home.

I rarely take or post pictures of our home, the land that our house rests on, the land we garden. I just seem to be so busy with other things when I’m here. But the other day I broke from the norm and took some photos of the last of the fall color around here.

A little filler until I return home from home and write more about home.