Years ago, I packed up and moved to the beautiful state of Kentucky. I moved there because my family had moved there, I liked it and needed a fresh start.
One afternoon, about 3 months after I’d moved there, I still had no job. I was driving in my car one beautiful afternoon, when I suddenly heard s news report on the car stereo, in relation to the National Census Report. (If you don’t know what that is…then you probably don’t read the blog, but instead just look at the photos.)
On this gloriously uplifting news report, it was stated that Kentucky had the lowest rate of salary for female workers in the nation. It was a pivotal moment for me, in which I realized that I needed to move back to Houston. I was over qualified for 99% of the jobs that were available, and I wasn’t from the town in the first place so I didn’t have a shot.
On that note, I loved back to Texas, restarted my life and all went great, however Kentucky stillfeels so wonderful.
The air is less humid and thick. The landscape is fabulous, and the town we lived in was much more peaceful than the big, cold and cruel city.
It’s always been my dream to go back to Kentucky with my husband for a quick trip…to the Smokey Mountain area, but on this day, we took a quick jaunt to Florence, Kentucky because it wasn’t too far from Cincinnati, where we were visiting for a tennis event.
I believe late September or October is the best time to drive through Kentucky, for all the fall colors, but it was great to take a break, and see all the old Americana style homes. I enjoy landscape architecture so he humored me and let me drive around and snap some garden photos.
In gardening, I find it unbearable if a person plants..say a tropical palm in the yard of a traditional styled home. They don’t match. “Old school” shrubs, such as my favorite…the Hydrangea, go with old style homes.
You can make a modest home look adorable and swanky with the right landscaping.
A friend of mine and her husband just bought a swanky beach front second home along the Florida panhandle, and she was packing things to decorate the new place earlier this week.
I told her to go buy some cheap garden gnomes and to show them to her new neighbors when she gets there and say, “Hey, help me find a great spot for my garden gnomes!”
As for Kentucky, I love it, and I desperately want to go back for a fall drive through sometime, however in the meantime, I certainly got some garden inspiration from Florence, Kentucky!
-August 29, 2013
-SDS
