Garden Party

Our Sunday afternoon took us to a garden party at the home of old friends.   Their daughter, a college senior, is soon departing for a year in Tanzania.   She has been at a school in Florida for the past month,  learning to speak Swahili.

I do believe we have been to their garden party in the past, with spring flowers blooming.  This garden walk was clearly late summer.  It was amazingly lovely, considering how little rain we have had this year.

Their home is quite unique, especially the access to it.   You cannot see it from the road.   There is a "driveway" road leading to a small garage like structure, with a door.  You park in this driveway, and you enter through this door,  and the door leads down down down a number of levels of stairways,  until you reach the bottom, where a door opens to the yard and the house.   The house itself is round,  which makes for an interesting interior.   It is an unusual house, in a unique setting.  {It would not be appropriate for anyone with disabilities}.

Most of the party, and I am sure, much of everything else, took place on the extensive deck.

Perhaps we will go again next year, and see how the daughter made out in Africa, and hear about her experiences.