What a surprise!

I picked up a magazine in Target the other night called Dream Gardens Across America 2010. I started reading it and I couldn't believe the picture in the magazine! When we lived in NJ and owned our little Victorian I was looking at a Better Homes and Garden Magazine and there was a beautiful arbor in a picture and you could order the plans. I showed it to John and he surprised me and ordered the plans. When they came he showed them to me and he told me for our anniversary he was going to make the arbor for me! My husband had never built anything other than a pinebox derby car when he was in Boy Scouts! He delivered his promise on our anniversary that August. As I was leafing through the Dream Gardens across America magazine guess what arbor was in a picture. The one John and I saw in the BH & G magazine about 20 yrs. ago! I took a picture of the one in the Dream Gardens.... and I'm going to look for the picture of the arbor John built me when I feel better. I will post it when I find it. For now here is the magazine version:


We even had roses growing up the arbor like in the picture!




Very uncanny!

John has promised when we have our own house again, he will build this arbor for me again. It was a great spot for me to read or sit with the girls when they were little. It holds a special spot in my heart!