Friday, August 23, 2013

Mushrooms and Acorns























We first saw this house while it was still on the market almost exactly one year ago now. Our old house had sold, and the deal on the house we had planned on buying fell through 4 days before we sold our house. We spent hours every day on the internet searching the listings over and over looking for some place ~any place please God!~ for our family to live. I found this property one afternoon shortly after Rodrigo arrived back at my parents house from work. It wasn't too far down the road from their house so we decided to run out, drive by and take a look. I called our realtor while we were driving to find out if she could meet us here and show us the house. We knew it was a foreclosure and was sitting empty from the pictures in the listing, so I wasn't worried about inconveniencing the owners on such short notice. The realtor was busy, but she got permission from the listing agent to give us the combination for the lock so we could let ourselves in and look around.

When we pulled into the driveway, I saw the woods behind the house, and below all of those great big huge trees were mushrooms. Everywhere! I love mushrooms!

{This picture was taken on the day we came to look at this house for the first time last year} 

And those towering trees, well most of them turned out to be Oak trees! Covered in acorns!! I love acorns too! I loved the land here! The house, well, honestly not so much. Rodrigo did, he saw the potential were I just saw depressing. Mainly it wasn't a pretty little Victorian farmhouse with a turret. So at that point nothing really seemed good enough for me, but I was ready to have a place to live after more than 9 weeks without a home!

This place finally feels like it's really ours. In October it will be a year since we signed the papers and moved in. I am so happy that this is the house we bought now. Occasionally we drive past that old Victorian farmhouse, and now I am just filled with gratitude that God led us where he has. It was not an easy lesson to learn, I tried my best to convince God that He really should just let us have the pretty white house with the turret, but I am so glad now that He didn't! Letting go of what I want is never easy! But those mushrooms and trees filled with acorns, well, they still thrill me as much as they did on the day we first saw them! And now even the little ones come to find me and show me when a pretty new mushroom pops up in the woods!

11 comments:

  1. Those are some awesome mushrooms! Are you up on your forging to know which ones are edible?

    There is always a reason things don't work out, and it seems you have found it and settled in nicely :)

    Enjoy your weekend.

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    1. Thanks Kim! We've spent much of this year looking them up online and in guide books, but I still don't feel confident trying to eat them! I have been looking for someone local who knows what's what to tell me if I'm right in my identifications before we venture into eating them!

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  2. Hi Rachel,
    It sure does look wonderful, treasures everywhere
    Love and light Marie

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  3. I love your new header. You pictures are beautiful.

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    1. Thanks! I'm trying to learn how to take my camera off of auto...I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing right now! But I'm trying.

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  4. Love all the pictures! Your home is very peaceful. It's so funny you posted these now. We've lived here for three years, and I don't think I've ever seen mushrooms. We have very little trees, and are more open land so we just don't get a lot! But in the last week, we've had a ton of those flat white ones pop up around the garden!

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  5. I am a mushroom lover and frequently photograph them and I make them from felt. So I was pleased to see your blog.

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  6. Wow! You have a whole mushroom menagerie! It is so beautiful to observe what so many overlook.

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  7. Oh Wow! These are all amazing! I would love to come & visit you & walk in your woods (with you of course :)
    Thanks for sharing these photos & your sweet memory! I know a red brick box wasn't my idea of our 'ideal' house, but it perfectly suits us at the moment :)
    Blessings
    Renata:)

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  8. You certainly are in a beautiful spot. Ahh, mushrooms and acorns - very special. I miss woods. How I loved to walk in the woods when we lived in England, green, mossy, damp. Here is southern Africa our woods are very different. Beautiful mushrooms but hardly any acorns and our woods are dry and brown. Still beautiful but very different. Love all your photos very much!

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