Shortly after Earl and I moved into our house in Michigan my friend Judi came to visit. She brought her camera and went around the house taking pictures, even though we were hardly settled in. A while later, a beautiful album arrived at our home.
I hadn’t looked at the album recently, but last night I came across it. The first photo shows me standing in our doorway waving, and I imagine Judi shot it just before she drove away.
What struck me most about the collection of photos is how much our house has changed in the almost seven years since Judi first came. That photo of me waving also shows the old walkway to the front door and the old bushes, both of which have been replaced since then.
The interior shots reveal the former owners’ color choices, as we hadn’t begun to paint the inside yet. Except for our master bedroom, which I had already painted an ungodly shade of pink. It wasn’t on purpose, but that’s how we discovered that the paint the previous owners used needed to be whited-out before we applied our own colors. I smile at that pink bedroom because we’ve already re-painted it to a more soothing grey-tan. In fact, we’ve repainted every room in the house.
A large green vase sits in the middle of the kitchen table. It was a purchase Judi talked me into when we went shopping in downtown St. Joe. “You’ve got to get that vase,” she said. So I did. She talked me into a lamp for the bedroom too, and there’s a picture of it as well.
This album is a treasure, because it reminds me of our progress in making the home our own. We can create a long list of changes we’ve implemented, but the visual reminder of some of them is much better. Thanks, Judi.
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