The long view

I was sorting through some images today and found this one from our friend Kathy Roh- senberger.

She buzzed us a while back and snapped as she went by. The sun is glinting off the slate roofs, but it gives you some perspective on the place.

That tan area behind the main house is the courtyard. The garage and office above -- where I'm typing this -- are to the right of the house. At the left end of the pool, there's the cabana, with the summer house tucked into the woods at the left edge of the courtyard. The cutting gardens are on the far left.

And that little white patch at the bottom of the picture is a stand of a grass we call silver sword, though I don't know its real name. Sprouts white, grows cornstalk-style variegated green and white, matures to full green with a giant plume taking it to 10 feet or so tall by fall. Lovely.