Thank you for visiting our new website! We are excited about the launch. We could not have done it without the help of our designer Trevor Borden. Trevor is a singer/songwriter who recently added web disign to his creative life. Along with the new site we have a new blog. To get stared we wanted to bring over a few old blogs from Lavender Lemonade that featured The Hatton House or happenings around the homestead. Below if the first blog post as began this journey from December 2013
Re-Invent or Re-Store, sometimes they look alike
We’ve all heard the saying about life being a journey, going through different seasons, taking different paths., reaching different crossroads. At this stage in my life the seasons seem to change quickly and the crossroads are many. As many of my friends are taking the “ I have to re-invent myself” road, I think I am taking more the “It’s time to Re-Store an old self” road.
Years ago (too many to count, but let’s say a long time) I would buy and read books on growing and using herbs, and gardening. Lavender was and still is one of my favorites. Years before I heard anyone talk about lavender farms in Texas, I was dreaming of walking through those amazing purple fields in France. I scoured magazines such as“Country Living”, Southern Living, Food and Wine. Reading and keeping articles and pictures of old farm houses, Bed & Breakfast sites, and recipes of homegrown and beautiful food. At the time I really didn’t think about photogenic these all were. I didn’t think of creating these images, I just wanted to live in them.
Photography is still my profession and will always be however it is looking a bit different these days. As I approached one of those crossroads in life I decided to restore an old dream instead of re-inventing a new one.
My husband and I own a wonderful old rock house built somewhere around 1857. We have always dreamed of restoring it for a guest house or B&B. My other dream was to walk through lavender fields in France. Life has always taken us down other paths. Oh, they have been wonderful paths just different than these dreams. But time has come to follow those dreams.
We haven't made it to France, instead I planted my own lavender field.
I spent the last year loving over that small field, fighting to keep the horses from pulling up the tiny plants. Worried about the drought and then about too much rain, the Sweet lavender was the only variety to bloom the first year and with that we had lavender ice-cream and gallons of Lavender Lemonade all through the summer.
At the same time we began work on our little rock house, slowly restoring and working it into shape to welcome guest. Although there is more we want to do we are excited to say we have officially opened The Hatton House B&B at the Creek Road Homestead, and ready for you to come stay!
WOW, that is a little scary to say out load.
When you have dreamed of something and then the reality is here, and what if it’s not what you think is going to be? Oh well, here we go!
As of now, we have the downstairs open and plan to open the upstairs room in May or June. You can get more information and book a stay here www.creekroadhomestead.com or you can just email me! If you want to come just walk through the lavender that is fine to.
So you may have noticed I changed the name of my blog to Lavender Lemonade.
When I started my blog, I shared stories about my life, I wrote and shared stories about my clients and a few stories from the streets. At first it was a lot about my photography business, a bit of self-promotion! There will still be a touch of that since I often get my stories and images from my clients but my hope is for it to be more. As I find and share these stories I want them go deeper. I hope they will be inspirational. I hope they tell a story of following ones dreams and stories of hope. I also plan to write, photograph and share more stories about food, about culture and travel. (more later on why I think food is so important) Lavender Lemonade represents that to me, it reminds me of dreaming, of hard work, of hope, of cultivating a life , of the beauty of a sweetand sometimes sour life. So I plan and hope to write more in this new year to come, along this new adventure of adding an inn-keeper hat to my collection. I also hope you will join me on occasion, laugh, dream and share the ride, I would love to hear about your dreams as well.
