within a kilometer of home, along Route 131 in Martinsville:
a summer place:
Pointed Fir, alluding to Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs, written in and about Martinsville [“Dunnet Landing”] ca. 1896 (Jewett rented the schoolhouse building, next door to Pointed Fir -see text of the novella)
a bit of recent renovation:
nice big window:
not the color I’d have chosen:
