The house was there first. Small and determined, it huddled against constant winds, braved the sun, stood fast through raging dust-storms and the terror of lightning.
Years passed. The land yielded. The silo was built. A practical thing, meant to store the grain in. However, tacked on as it was, snug into the back wall of the cabin with nary a breath of space between, it also contained hope. It held the promise for winter stews and for bread rising in the oven even long after the growing months had gone and there was little sign of nascent greening, let alone of next harvest’s ripening.
The silo became another sturdy thing to be led home by. There when ice rode in and clouds breathed snow and the cabin was too lonely in the vastness of being. Together they formed a home. An oasis of nourishing.
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
Oh, you make such a cosy place of it, so cosy I wouldn’t mind living there, blasted by Siberian winds or not 🙂
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LOL! Thank you! I’d prefer living there without being blasted by Siberian winds … 😉 But yeah, the photo gave such a cozy (yet isolated) feeling to me, that this was where it took me.
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About a mile or so from this mile, deeper into the marshes, further away from habitation I happened upon an old marshman’s cottage. This was way back, when I first moved to the area. I used to dream of buying that place, doing it up enough to make it habitable. It has a few apple trees growing out back of it. Totally unrealistic, of course. But what a dream.
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Yeah … (she said dreamily) … I can see how and why … Sigh.
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Yeah. It’s no longer there. I’ll join you in a sigh 🙂
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🙂
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Wonderful, Na’ama. Yes, very cozy feeling has been created by your lovely words.
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Yay to cozy feelings! Xo 😃
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Yes… I need me some cozy…
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Don’t we all, sometimes! Xo!
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True ’nuff!
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Me like truth … 😉
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