...was amazing. I love visiting friend's houses and seeing how their day-to-day is. There were hummingbirds buzzing through the backyard ~ hefty ones, not like the east coast's ruby throated miniatures. My room was a little bright back one by the garden under a roof overgrown with trumpetvine ~ over which I could hear the neighbor's cat quietly picking her way each night. Bougainvillea, roses and succulents lined the neighbors' yards, and the salt of the sea wafted all the way up the street, where we could watch a portion of the sun on the waves from her front porch. We walked down the beach to Santa Monica Pier and went on the ferris wheel, and at the top, I could imagine the coast as it would have been a thousand years ago, fierce waves and wind blurring the sunset into the mountains.
It was a home to come home to.
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16 comments:
These are beautiful pictures Brooke. It looks like a fabulous home, and I love seeing it through your eyes. It's wonderful to have a "home to come home to", that's not home, you know what I mean? Somewhere that's as relaxed as home, but not quite so familiar. For me, it's my aunt's house where things change but the atmosphere stays the same :)
how beautiful! i think i just took a trip myself. :)
Thank you for sharing these pictures and words with us. What a wonderful place you went to.
What a beautiful place to call home!
Beautiful place , beautiful photos , always nice to see places where creative women live . Especially in love with the book shelves
A magical and beautiful place! Such pretty views, teacups, doggie...I love Santa Monica.
xo
cortnie
So many amazing details in these shots...I can't pick my favorite! And Santa Monica...wow. I spent a few weeks there once and I can't seem to rid myself of its magic, ever :)
Oh, it was such a treat to have you here! Those little paintings beside my books are ones my grandmother did of me as a little girl (she did them for all of her granddaughters). She would be tickled to know those images are in circulation.
I think of you every day as I breathe in the beauty of your poetry, polaroids and altered books around our home.
xo
I love visiting my friends' homes too. It's so nice to see them in their own space.
I love her home.
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful place. This is very much why I read blogs – escaping into adventures for a moment. Thank you again.
Lovely.
I am smiling from ear to ear. What beauty in these photos and words and the friendship within it all. xoxo
lovely shots! what a regal looking pup.
It looks wonderful. I love the tea set. I have a friends how which is clean, beautiful and stylish but calm and cosy, I feel like that's my 'home that's not home'.
And thank you, you solved a mystery for me, now I know that the beutiful pink trumpet plant which I couldn't find in my referance book is called trumpetvine.
Droool. What a beautiful home, and she has such a lovely style. Thanks for sharing her home with us!
Very lovely!
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