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On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!
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Any day with llamas is a good one, I say – enjoy the pictures!
Today, pictures from valued commenter BretH.
We spent Thanksgiving with my Mother-in-Law who lives just outside Chapel Hill, NC. We can’t all squeeze into her farmhouse any longer so my wife finds us BnBs to stay at when we visit. This one was the most extraordinary yet – a stone house set in a horse/animal farm with art everywhere.
Taken on 2018-11-23 00:00:00
There’s a pond on the property, a short walk through the woods from the guest house. As you come upon the pond the most noticeable thing is this sculpture which looks to be nymphs jumping off rocks in the pond. Then you notice the whole thing is slowly circling about in the water and it becomes apparent that the entire thing is a floating piece of art.
Taken on 2018-11-22 00:00:00
Featuring one of three friendly cats (this is Butch Cassidy) the house is exquisite, with works of art everywhere from the owner’s mother’s estate. Everywhere there are special touches that reflect the farm – “pig” hand towels in the bathrooms because there’s a household pig on the property, peacock fireplace grates because, yes, there are peacocks wandering around.
Taken on 2018-11-22 00:00:00
What a room to wake up in. I had been awake earlier but finally decided to get up because the animals were being fed. Certainly beats a hotel room, at least for me.
Taken on 2018-11-22 00:00:00
Along with the pig and peacocks there are three llamas that roam the property. This is extra cool for me as I was actually born in Peru. They are not the most friendly of creatures but I did manage to give the black one a few scratches, and found one of the light ones liked little apple bits. Wife is coming back from a morning run.
Taken on 2018-11-22 00:00:00
Another neat thing about the place is the artwork – the husband is fond of art and it appears everywhere – these columns are in the middle of a horse pasture, I believe because the husband admired a painting of columns in a field. So his wife got him these for a birthday present.
Thank you so much BretH, do send us more when you can.
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Mary G
Wow, cool. How does the sculpture rotate in the pond? The light in the bedroom is glorious.
JPL
How fun!
J R in WV
Nice place, interesting to see it all. Creative people doing a home are so fun!
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Thanks all !!
OzarkHillbilly
Peacocks- Uck!
Llamas bite. (supposedly make very good guardian animals)
Love the pond sculpture tho.
Elizabelle
Enchanting. I love the horse with the columns. But it’s all good.
debbie
Very cool art!
BretH
@Mary G: it must be built on a hidden raft and it’s anchored so it can’t migrate too far but is free to drift a little. At one time (maybe a decade ago) it was some sort of fountain.
Wag
Cool photo of the sculpture!
HinTN
That’s really interesting what the sun/shadow does to the painting in the bedroom. Also, that sculpture is way cool.
BretH
The cottage exterior, bedroom photo and the horse/columns were taken with a lens I got very recently for my Panasonic Lumix micro four thirds camera – the SLR Magic 8mm. It’s amazingly not a fisheye (although in the bedroom you can see a little distortion) and once you get used to the f-stop and focusing (it’s all manual) it works great – for only $160. I’m old school , having grown up on fully manual SLRs, so it is especially fun and nostalgic to use.
p.a.
Know a guy who used to raise peacocks. Not a songbird, to put it mildly about their vocalizations.
Great looking B&B. Don’t envy the people who have to clean them; every horizontal surface seems to be full of tchotchkes. I hate dusting.
We’re any of those llamas in Holy Grail?
Tenar Arha
@BretH: I love that, the whole concept & execution & site plan for that piece is *chef’s kiss.* Thank you for sharing it.
p.a.
@Tenar Arha:
Now there’s something crying out for an emoji.
I’m off to see if there is one…
eclare
Lovely!