- a big kitchen at the center with sand on the floors
- a fairy-tale roof that looks like someone has spilled silly sand
- a hollywood cottage
- a little yellow house
- a porch full of surfboards
- an old spanish building
- ancient roman tear vessel that came from a tomb that looks like a fossilized tear itself
- antique wooden cherub
- big windows with leaded glass panes
- bird skulls
- blue satin quilted headboard
- books
- brass menorah
- bunches of dried wild flowers
- carved faces over the fireplace
- china dolls with little teeth
- dried flowers
- fireplace with carved angels
- flower box full of real flowers and herbs
- pansies and rosemary
- fossils
- garden full of roses and day lilies
- glass butterfly ashtrays
- house with a tower
- ivory monkeys
- jacaranda tree
- leopard print chaise lounge
- lit with candles
- little cottage in the canyon
- little fishpond
- many kinds of coasters
- maxfield parrish prints of nymphs in classical sunset gardens
- miniature stone sphinx
- oleander in the garden
- ornate crosses
- paintings of clowns
- paintings of joni, patti, sinead, pj
- palm trees growing in front like totems
- pink-damask drapes
- plaster jesus statues
- roses and lemon trees in the garden
- roses in juice jars
- shells
- shingled roof and thick creamy walls
- silk roses in platform shoes from the 40's and 70's
- smelling of cedar and eucalyptus, smoke and lavender
- table covered with guatemalan fabric
- teeny apartment you have to walk up eight floors to get to
- terraced garden
- amaryllis
- crumbling fountain
- iris
- some cats and dogs
- swingset heavy with children
- tasseled silk trees
- tin angels hanging on the walls above the bed
- two bedrooms—one painted rose and the other aqua
- vines that cover the walls
- wax rose candles from tijuana
- winding moss-covered path that led nowhere
- wooden floors that my mom polished with lemon oil soap until they shone
dec 3 2013 ∞
dec 3 2013 +
