LIL: Pictures From My New Neighborhood for a New Year
My husband and I took our first walk around our new neighborhood this week. It's interesting that the decorations in this neighborhood have a different look about them (compared to my old neighborhood).
For one thing, religion is emphasized in my new community. There are many nativities featured, with overt religious significance. There are many signs that read Keep Christ in Christmas. I have avoided posting pictures with blatant religious messages here. All the pictures posted in this blog are secular in nature (unless there is a message I overlooked).
I have mixed emotions about being in a new home, and a new neighborhood. It's not that I miss the old one. Leave-taking is something I've had to do with far more weighty emotional impact. It's just that I still feel like a squatter, or as though I'm renting someone else's home.
One thing I do miss from my old home is animals. Birds would flock to the yard, the trees, and the wires around my house. We caught images of more than one fox crossing the lawn at night. Squirrels also ran across wires, and jumped from tree limb to tree limb. And opossum--over the years we played host to many of these odd critters.
Birds in a Tree, Spied from the Upstairs Window in My Old House
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Fox, Image Captured by Camera at Night
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Opossum, Hanging out in a Tree, While Humans Sit Around a Fire Pit
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So far, in my new home, I have seen dogs on leashes, and no other animals. Where are they? Perhaps when warm weather returns I will see more animals in my neighborhood.
The Christmas photos contributed to Hive today are the first LIL pictures from my new neighborhood, and from 2024.
Let's hope there will be many more LIL contributions in the months to come that reflect an increasing sense of belonging to my new community.
Please remember, once pictures are posted in the LMAC library (LIL), they will be in the public domain and anyone on Hive may use them. The gallery is located here and guidance for contributing/using may be found here.
Thank you for reading my blog. Health and peace to all my readers.
| Red Christmas Elf | Christmas, Elf, Decoration |  |
| Christmas Cardinal | Christmas,Bird, Cardinal |  |
| Gingerbread Man | Christmas, Gingerbread Man, Decoration |  |
| Green Christmas Elf | Christmas, Elf, Decoration |  |
| Mr. and Mrs. Claus | Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Christmas |  |
| Christmas Puppy | Christmas, Puppy, Decoration |  |
| Santa With Candy Canes | Christmas, Santa Claus, Candy Canes |  |
| Christmas Snowman | Christmas, Snowman, Cardinal |  |
| Christmas Truck | Truck, Christmas Tree, Christmas Presents |  |
| Christmas Penguin | Christmas, Penguin |  |
| Christmas Reindeer | Christmas, Reindeer, Decoration |  |
| Christmas Banner | Christmas, Banner, Cardinal, Merry Christmas |  |
| Christmas Snowman | Christmas, Snowman |  |
| Christmas Puppy | Christmas, Puppy |  |
| Christmas Dog | Christmas, Dog, Decoration |  |
| Santa With Noel Sign | Santa, Noel Sign |  |
Greetings my appreciated and respected Lady @agmoore thank you for these beautiful images contributed to LIL. Thank you for your contribution and for enriching our Library with value.
I hope you will gradually find love and affection for your new spaces. Surely you will find places where the beautiful animals will be, those that give us so much happiness. I understand what you express, I have also felt nostalgia and comparisons come and are inevitable.
My best wishes for your well-being in this new year that has just begun.
For my part, active again to continue to enjoy the joy of collages.
See you soon, Dama.
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Dear @almajandra, Greetings and Happy New Year. I am actually quite grateful to be here, because my whole family is together. I think I have to plant some trees and make the place my own. It takes time, and the older we are I think the more time it takes.
Thank you for your kind words. Looking forward to seeing you collages when the LMAC resumes.
Thank you very much Lady for the good wishes. Definitely the purpose is well worth it, you are with your loved ones and that is of great value.
You have in your hands the opportunity to give life and flavor to the environments, which will be the reflection of your personality.
The birds are enjoying their moments on the trees 🎄
Change isn't always interesting because you'll miss the old but if you see this as an adventure, does it help? That's what I often do. When I move into new neighborhoods, I see it as an adventure and go scouting.
Your Christmas photos are lovely. I hope you had a relaxing holiday. Wishing you a prosperous 2024. 😊
Hello Dear @kemmyb, and Happy New Year.
It is an adventure. You are very correct. I moved here mostly because my family wanted this, and there is satisfaction in making them happy. As we get older, it is natural to think of others and their future. But I can still have my own adventures :)
Thank you for the kind words and encouragement. I will think of it more as a step forward, than a step away.
Hope 2024 is great for you.
I can identify with the feeling of squatting in someone else's home! I bought my current place 4 years ago and after a lifetime of moving about accumulating zero stuff I moved in here with 2 suitcases, a jukebox and a chair. The previous owners were emigrating to England so took nothing with them but their personal effects. Every piece of cutlery, delph, tea towel, duvet, everything is theirs, right down to my Crocs and rainwear.
I wish you peace and contentment in your new home. May the wind always be at your back and may your religiously inclined neighbours be of the non-evangelical persuasion.
😀
What is life without music?
You were lucky to have inherited a lot of 'stuff', but then there is always the shadow of previous owners.
I made the move mostly for my husband and my daughter. If I keep that in mind, I will be content. Surely there must be an opossum or fox lurking around the neighborhood, somewhere. I just haven't found them yet.
Second that!
Thanks for the kind wishes, my friend, @deirdyweirdy
I love the way I’m seeing birds on that tree
That particular picture looks very beautiful
Nice one!
Hello dear @agmoore!
I hope next year will be an excellent and prosperous year for you and yours. When we arrive to a place we try, sometimes unconsciously, to empathize with the spaces, the symbols, the people, however, many of those times it is not very easy for us. We just have to wait, give time to time, it is usually a great teacher. Everything will work out as it should.
Thank you for your contribution to the library :)
A big hug and Happy New Year!!
Hello dear @esthersanchez,
Your thoughts on change are wise. I will learn to empathize with the spaces I now inhabit. Taking walks is one way to acclimate myself to the environment. I will give it time. My husband, daughter and granddaughter are very happy. That is enough for me ;)
Thank you for your kind wishes. I hope for you the very best possible 2024.
It's been a real joy to know that my words have been helpful! Stay healthy and happy :)
Seems like there is few numbers of animals all around the environment that you currently stay
Lack of animals can be disheartening, especially for someone like you who are used to them.
I can't imagine sleeping and not having to wake up to my daily pigeon alarm clock going off by 5am in the morning 😭
I would love a pigeon alarm😃. We used to hear the birds in the morning. I think I'll have to plant a few trees by my window, trees that birds like to nest in.
Thanks for stopping by, @seki1