Welcome to my front porch
Who doesn't love a front porch?
How many of you can still enjoy sipping the morning coffee on a beautiful summer day while exchanging pleasantries from the front porch with neighbors on their way to work or to their golf game?
Or relax on the front porch swing with a cold brew after a hard day's work?
I even take my laptop outside with me to catch-up on my email and all the scores of the day. It sure beats the heck out of sitting in a cubicle!
If you don't see yourself in any of those situations, it may be because you traded-in the simple joys of front porch ownership for the dubious pleasure of two-car-garage-front-of-the-house-monstrosity ownership.
"The twilight was blurred and soft. Supper was almost ready and the smell of cabbage floated to them from the open hall. All of them were together except Hazel, who had not come home from work, and Etta, who still lay sick in bed. Their Dad leaned back in the chair with his sock-feet on the bannisters. Bill was on the steps with the kids. Their Mama sat on the swing fanning herself with the newspaper. Across the street a girl in the neighborhood skated up and down the sidewalk on one roller skate. The lights on the block were just beginning to be turned on, and far away a man was calling someone." --From McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, in Out on the Porch
OK, so you've got a deck out back. I enjoy that too. It's great for the BBQ and entertaining friends. But in my book, nothing beats watching the world go by from the front porch.
With this website I hope to do my small part to give back to the front porch some of its vanished glory.
