It’s the dead of winter and major snow is predicted in the next couple of days (10 inches!!). All I can think about right now is spring…and then SUMMER! I sometimes wonder how I ended up in Michigan…which I swear has winter for at least 10 months a year. All this snow eventually makes me crazy enough to start day dreaming about the “good ‘ol days”…aka when the sun was actually shining.
Ah, the sun. In the summer. Sitting in my back yard, on the deck, feeling the sun, watching dusk come, watching fireflies wake up, hear the crickets start chirping. Ugh. Stupid snow storm. Either way, it has me dreaming about green grass and sun in my backyard. Obviously with so many months spent in the cold I want to make the most out of a summer evening.
Last summer my boyfriend’s mom bought some solar garden lights for the cottage. (It seems everyone in MI has a cottage) But. I must admit that I fell in love with the idea of those lights. They provided just enough light to get me from the deck, down the steps, and to the dock. In other words, nothing overwhelming that would ruin the magic of dusk.
I’ve thought about getting a few solar garden lights for the backyard here. It probably wouldn’t be as amazing as we are in the middle of town, but I think part of me would feel like it was a bunch of candles adding some ambience. And why solar? Yeah. Like I want to change batteries or ugh…hardwire lights? No thanks.
Here’s my dilemma. As is my dilemma with the entire house. I feel like I’m decorating for the first time as a “grown up”. I want something modern so something like metal solar garden lights would be perfect. I want easy maintenance….so that would mean something like stainless steel solar garden lights. However! When I’m trying to make the most of my summer months the last thing I want to do is spend too much time on yard work. My concern with most solar garden lights is that you stick them in the ground lining a walk way or scattered in a flower bed. This means I either have to weed, trim or mow around them. I want to streamline, people, streamline! I want to wring every ounce of enjoyment out of the warmer months. I looked up the stats once for how many cloudy days there are in Grand Rapids once…yeah…it was depressing. I’ve blocked it out now and I refuse to revisit the horror to prove my point. Google it yourself and weep for me. So, streamlining. We have a wooden fence that surrounds the property on 2 sides…I’ve thought about getting wall mounted solar garden lights. I mean, that would eliminate the aforementioned concerns, and it would make a boring fence pretty. Win=win!
