This Week's Happy Place is...

two chairs and a table in a yard with fruit trees. This looks like summer bliss to me. Okay, work week here I come but I'm really hanging out her.

Photo by Amelia and Andrea Lonngren Widell.

Country vs.Urban

Loving the space of this country garden and the ingenious incorporation of green gardens in this urban landscape . Hurray for gardeners everywhere. Which would you rather have a country or city garden?

Images via a well traveled woman.

The View From Train

There is always some interesting detail to spy from a train window. On my route I have favorite houses, factories, bridges and signs. I particularly like the view in the summer which becomes more varied with the addition of foliage, alternating between industrial, suburban, almost almost bucolic. I love spying into the backyards that line the tracks on certain stretches. Some of the yards are almost completely taken up by pools. These aqua oasises look incredibly appealing during the dog days of summer.

Near the city there are little vegetable garderns that residents sneak in between their backyards and the tracks. These border gardens are my current favorite scenery. I love that the residents are making use of every little bit of land. It's amusing to see tiny corn crops and zucchini growing on the slope down to the tracks. I have yet to snap a good photo of these train track farms. I'm going to make that my goal on my next trip into the city.