Saving the Best for Last

Over the last couple of weeks I've shared my living spaces with all of you. I have thoroughly enjoyed living in this place of tranquility. When the weather allows, which is most of the time, I'm outside in the gardens. As you can see as you enter from the street, there is a huge flagstoned area that if I wanted, I could park a car. I choose not to do so. I now have a large round table and chairs in the middle of that space. Another wonderful place to read, drink coffee or just contemplate my blessings.

There are extensive gardens that include the planted areas of azaleas, lilies, bourganvilla, geraniums and a lot of other flowers. There are also fruit trees - avocado, pomegranate, and the prize, a HUGE lemon tree that produces huge lemons, not limes. I treasure all the fresh lemons and share them with many friends.

There is this main garden area and stairs down to the lower terrace outside my bedroom which you saw in another post. In the distance you can see the bourganvilla that is outside my bedroom. It is more then two stories high and quite a gift to behold. Oh, and just to the right in this photo is a poinsetta tree. When it is covered with blooms, it is also covered with butterflies. They love the nectar of the blooms. Notice I have NO grass to cut.

As you saw in another post there is the roof terrace too. Another vantage point to see the vistas of the surrounding countryside and alllllllll the potted plants on that terrace.

Exactly where the photo above is taken is where I most enjoy sitting in the morning and contemplating what a lucky person I am and wondering what the day will bring. More gardening, surely.

It is all a visual feast.