A year or so ago my Favorite Jason Nephew sent me a link to a real estate listing for 1114 Pawnee Lane in Mount Vernon, Washington.
The house was a disaster. Apparently, the roof failed, pretty much ruining the entire interior, all three floors, along with ruining the rooftop garden and other damage.
Even so, the house was listed for just under half a million bucks.
Which seemed totally bizarre, what with that house having been built in 1985 for around $65,000, and sold in 2002 for around $135,000.
And now, this third or fourth day since the fall of fall, incoming email from the aforementioned Favorite Jason Nephew.
Text in the email, "Went for a nice fall drive this morning. Fall leaf foliage is nearly in its peak. We are in a pattern of cool crisp mornings with afternoon sunshine. Snapped a shot of this Pawnee Lane home. I see new windows have been installed."
The large image is the photo Jason included, of what the Pawnee Lane house looks now, in 2025. Inset at the lower left is one of the few photos I have of that house, taken soon before I moved from that house to Texas.
That house looked real nice when I left it. It has been tackied up in the years since. An ugly garage door added to the carport. The stairs to the second floor entry oddly rebuilt. Ugly windows. The glassed awning at the second floor entry, covering part of the rooftop garden atop the carport, has been replaced with what looks like a sloping, solid structure.
I spent many hours on many days swinging in a hammock under that glass-roofed awning, taking breaks from tending to my garden of tomatoes, blueberries, flowers, strawberries and various herbs.
I should have more photos of that house. Maybe I have hard copy, non-digital, old-fashioned type photos in one of my many photo albums which I've not looked at in years.
Or maybe there are photos in one of the picture folders on this computer. Though a quick look only found a few....
