One evening this past summer we were taking a walk in my brother’s neighborhood in Oreland, Pa. This particular time we took a different route, and I saw something I never really took notice of before. It was a house that stood out among the others, for its yard and the house design itself. For one thing, it sat on a bend in the road, and all of it was contained in a fairly small triangular shaped piece of property. The landscaping was perfect, with a neatly mowed lawn and trimmed shrubbery. The house looked like it jumped off the pages of a children’s story book.
Around the periphery stood a white picket fence, the small gate adorned with a floral wreath, displaying autumn colors, although this was still in early August. There were some other decorations that are obscured in this picture, such as the wooden goose on the window. It was all kept immaculate, looking too perfect to walk on.
As for who lives in the house, I don’t know. It could be anyone, but I’m guessing an elderly woman who authors children’s books. It looks like the whole appearance of the property is designed to provide surroundings for writing the stories that would fill those books. The inspiration is right there. It would take only a short stretch of the imagination to have gum drops growing out of the trees, or to have lollipops and candy canes growing out of the ground. Snow white, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood can easily be placed in the front yard.
It is also just as likely that the house is occupied by an average nuclear family. Maybe both parents are doctors, lawyers, or postal workers. Whoever it is, they do a great job maintaining both the house and yard, or they pay someone
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