twinhearts

This home is the result of a many-months-long search for the right place for our family--within striking distance of Austin but with a piece of land all its own (twinlake is on almost two acres). Secluded but also with a community (twinlake has two community "lakes"--ponds really--one with a sandy beach and playground). We have fallen in love with the golden glow of the hill country, the way the grass moves almost like an ocean. Our search has taken us all over central TX, from the fascinating time-capsule town of Taylor to the shores of Canyon Lake to the cypresses leaning out over the Blanco in Wimberley. There is much to love here.

We made offers on two homes which fell through for one reason or another, both of which gave us cold feet. But no cold feet on this one--it just feels right. (Let's hope all goes well through inspection and the rest of our negotiations!) We kept waiting for some kind of sign on the others but never received one. But on this home we finally got a hit. I collect stone hearts (if it is fair to say "collect" when one has only two). The first is from a beautiful little island --Pender--off the coast of British Columbia where we visit with my family each summer. It is gray and striated with white. And the second we found on a long picnic table under an oak tree in the park adjoining that sandy beach I mentioned earlier. It is fragile and chalky, limestone, but a heart. And they are hard to find; I have been looking ever since I found the first on Pender.