I'm sure the house in my profile picture has a story. They all do. It wasn't the promise of a story, however, that took my breath when I turned a corner and found this beauty. It was simply the way the sun was shining on the tin roof.
Hard to say how old this house is, but easy to believe that it has seen its share of life. It lives in McIntosh County, Georgia, a place settled by Scottish Highlanders in 1721, long before we were even a nation.
Tin on a roof doesn't take nearly three centuries to acquire a patina as lovely as this one, though, so maybe this house is a mere youngster compared to the homes and churches surrounding it.
Many of them come with long histories, threads connecting them to the American Revolution, The Civil War, and various hurricanes and natural disasters, not to mention years of modern cultural unrest and upheaval.
Such is the way with the South. For every complicated tale that comes with this place I call home, there is also the way the sun shines on a tin roof.
Photo by Beth Yarbrough.
And Spanish moss hanging from a tree in the foreground makes it even more endearing!
I love these old houses you find. There's a settled feeling to them that is internalized as warmth.