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[blank]If there is one thing I have always quietly longed for, it’s a porch. A big, wrap around porch that speaks of warm weather, of long quiet evenings, of a chair to relax on, of friends to chat with.
I have admired pictures of porches in America, in Australia and on the old colonial houses in India.
Well today, I am the lucky one, because I am invited – virtually at least – to spend time on the back porch of Anita from Cedar Hill Ranch.
Anita writes a wonderful blog about Texas living with a French accent! Her photos are stunning and her home just beautiful. Each Friday she invites a blogger to come and chat with her, and this week I am the lucky guest![blank]
[blank]Can you imagine how much fun it would be to have a bloggers party at Anita’s! Look how beautifully she styles her table!
So come over and join us, and while you’re here, take the tour of Anita’s beautiful home. When you’re done, we’ll walk over to a table in the prairie and chat until the sun goes down :)[blank]
[blank]Thank you Anita for inviting me over, and for giving us so much pleasure with your beautiful blog.[blank]
Photos by Anita of Cedar Hill Ranch[blank]
16 comments
Well, I rarely comment on furniture, BUT?….
…I love that couch on the porch….perfect for a life like mine, filled with rowsty (and usually dirty) terriers and visiting kids whom you don't want to scold because they inadvertantly got their feet on too-fancy upholstery. I like to live life happily.
As for Texas stories? Good Lord…. my paternal grandmother and her three sisters were all rasied in Waxahatchie (it used to be near Dallas; now it's sort of IN Dallas). They were all born between 1909 and 1914……and their names were (I kid you not): "David", "Ezra", and "Ira".
Yes, three male, Old Testament figures….the names of their father and two uncles. It seems there would be no sons for any of those men, but the family was going to be damned if it didn't pass on "its" precious names.
Their maiden-name was "Fudge". Their mother was, originally, a "Fly". Once again, I kid you not. Texans are a breed apart and, historically, have not given much a good damn about how folks do things elsewhere or what other folks think of them.
This business of giving all the daughters distinctly male names was handled by giving them all the middle-name "Ella" or Mae". So, my grandmother (nicknamed "Dave") became "Dave Ella"….which, pronounced with a Texas accent, sounded like "Duh-vella". Her sisters (my great aunts) were referred to as "Ezra-mae" and "Ira-mae". Aunt Ezra Mae got off easy, since she spent the last fifty years of her life being referred to as simply "Aunt-E"….thus "Auntie" (which was exactly what the black mammy (as the term was used back then) was called. This led to household confusions when folks were referring to each other, but they both insisted on being called "Auntie".
And, yes, my grandmother's maiden name was "Davella Fly Fudge".
This was during the same era when one of the state's (and, thus, the country's) richest man (who happened to have the surname "Hogg") named his two heiress daughters "Ima" and "Eura". Once again?….no kidding.
I happen to love Texans…and am, I suppose, 1/4 Texan.
I'll look forward to going to the Cedar Hill website.
Thanks for, as ever, a surprising and good posting, Sharon,
David Terry
http://www.davidterryart.com
Sharon,
I just finished reading your On the Back Porch interview with Anita at Cedar Hill Ranch. I read both your blog and Cedar Hill Ranch on a regular basis and was delighted to see your beautiful French home on Cedar Hill Ranch's blog on my blogroll this morning. You two ladies are among my favorite bloggers, and I find inspiration from both of you.
Judith
P.S. I forgot to mention that my Texan great-grandfather (who wasn't in the least Jewish…just rather fiercely devout in some weird, Methodistical way) was named "David Solomon Fudge".
Welcome to Texas….
—-david terry
Sharon, I loved your interview with Anita at Cedar Hill Ranch, and enjoyed learning about how you came to France and how you started blogging. Your blog is beautiful and so inspiring! I also came to blogging through the encouragement of someone else, my daughter! She already had a blog and felt it was something I would enjoy. And she was right, I can't imagine not doing it. I love all the connections I have made and learning so much from talented bloggers like yourself.
You went to Texas before you stopped in NYC? 🙂
Very nice.
xo
I just read your interview at Cedar Hill. It is wonderful, but you did forget to include a pic of Ghetto. You know he always causes a stir. I am not even a dog person and I just love hearing about him. And your recipes, and your flowers and ……
Amazing!
David, this is the way you spell Waxahachie! You have to live around these parts to get that right.
Thanks for joining me Sharon! I wish you could have come in person! You are always welcome. I know I would love to see you and your fabulous French home so day.
I grew up in a home with a front porch and it's something I love about the South..and I also love the interview.
Rita
I love our porch – am currently making new patchwork cushions for the chairs! Lovely blog, and also lovely feature in the UK Antiques magazine! Blogging can be such fun and a wonderful way for like-minded people to connect. Have a great weekend, looks like we are in for warm – if not HOT – one hear in Devon UK. What a treat! And the Wimbledon tennis finals too – all too much excitement!
Beautiful porch, table and garden.
Congratulations Anita and Sharon for sharing.
Dear Anonymous,
"Waxahachie"….Thanks..I'll make a point of remembering that.
I've never been there, actually.
—david terry
I wish I had space for a little bistro table like that. I do have a little space, on the side of the house, but I don't see myself going and sitting there.
When we finally settle on our forever home, a front porch is going to be a requirement. I love them.
That table setting amidst the fields is to die for. I can't imagine how beautiful it would be having a party among those flowers.
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