Before we started our serious quest for a home in D.C., we spent several months navigating the house-vs-condo debate that I imagine all house hunters in mid-sized metropolitan areas must traverse. Condos are more centrally located. A house would have more space. Condos have gyms and front desks. Houses are a lot of work when you have a full time job. But a house would make it easier to have a dog… How would we ever decide?
Turns out it wasn’t that hard. After a lot of searching online, we spent a weekend looking at all our options and ended up putting an offer in on the very first place we had looked, due in large part to its back yard, which was described by the seller’s agent as “an oasis in the city.”
For our first few months in the new house, it was more like a winter wonderland than an oasis.
Enjoying the snow from the comfort of the office.
The previous owners had taken really good care of the yard. There was a magnolia tree, crape myrtles, unidentified bulbs, and forsythia. There was also an implacably constructed, homemade sand box, which we promptly removed in favor of a raised bed garden.
Formerly home to a sandbox, the back left corner of the yard is now a vegetable garden!
There she is! The inspiration for this blog – my little garden.
The District Sprouts 