Good Fences and Cause and Effect

GOOD FENCES

and

Cause and Effect

and as always

an overload of reflections

(for me anyway)

as 2015 slips away.

Agatha Christie said, "One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers."

But, I disagree.

Those things that I remember, fuel everything that I do.

I offer this thought to you as we begin another new year.

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

Rainer Maria Rilke

So as 2016 begins, we bid farewell to the cause of holiday traditions,

 and all their effects to welcome 2016.

First fence arrives from

NOLA.

The Cornstalk Hotel

Victorian House with wrought iron cornstalk fence.

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wine in the cellars."

Henry David Thoreau

Happy New Year wishes to all.

"No cause occurs without effect.

and no effect occurs without cause.

No unjust action goes without penalty

and no action or thought

Flows unnoticed

throughout the universe."

Suzy Kassem

My next offering for GOOD FENCES arrives with a row of palm trees and a not so lovely but dutiful fence in Santa Barbara, California.

Photo information here.

I believe the design and construction of buildings and especially houses all have their own individual personalities, just like people. 

The above photo is located next door to the

Albert Hayman Cottage 212 Palm Avenue Santa Barbara, California

This is the view along Palm Avenue

showing 212 Palm (Albert Hayman Cottage) right center.

The cottage is of

Gothic Revival

architecture.

Clearly showing, bigger isn't always better.

Not a McMansion by any means.

Quaint and homey like.

With attention to detail.

Home, is where one does more than just live.

"I love the dark hours of my being.

My mind deepens into them.

There I can find, as in old letters

the days of my life, already lived

and held like a legend, and understood."

Rainer Maria Rilke

The better to appreciate all that has passed and all that is promised ahead.

Can't you just imagine a gentle fire burning within?

So, are you curious about the effect of time upon this quaint little cottage today? View the link below.

Closing street view of the Albert Hayman cottage from March 2012 complete with fence here.

"And now we welcome the new year.

Full of things that have never been."

Rainer Maria Rilke