P Is for Porch Time . . .or Porch Sittin'

 

We have about a week and a half left of the April A to Z challenge. Will I finish??

P Is for Porch Time . . .or Porch Sittin'

I have shared many of these pictures over the years. Mark and I are blessed to live in a home with multiple porches and a neighborhood where other homes have porches, too! Early mornings and late afternoons often have neighbors gathered together for a cup of coffee or an afternoon cocktail.

I shared this photo just last week -- the younger generation escaped to the screen porch after Easter lunch.

Our son and daughter-in-law hosted an evening gathering on their ginormous back deck - a deck counts as a porch, right?

We love to have our steps decorated for various seasons. Mark has a green thumb and a big watering can and he keeps all of our porch plants thriving!

Mark wants to replace the wooden steps with brick steps. I asked AI to generate a photo for me and it did and I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't sure the brick steps would look good, but they do in the AI picture (which I'm not sharing today).

We decorate our porch for Halloween because everyone (almost everyone) in the neighborhood decorates! We had a Harry Potter theme this year.

Here is a shot of our screen porch. We have a fishing motif :-).

Another view of the front porch is below -- the front porch is L shaped and we have Pottery Barn Palmetto chairs to the right of the steps. To the left, we have a wooden "glider" that will hold a couple of people - maybe even two adults and a small child. To the back on the left, we have a teak table with six chairs. From my favorite chair (check out M post), I can see the table through a window. It is totally yellow due to the pollen.

Here is a shot of the front porch to the right. We actually have a different rug out there now and different plants in the pots.

Great shot here -- below you can see the glider and the teak table and chairs.

Here is a different view. Mark will eventually wash everything, but the pollen is still coming down. The glider is instead of a swing.

Here is a view from the garage toward the house of the screen porch.

A view of the downstairs porch from the street (below).

We have been known to spend porch time on other porches! Below is Susie's porch (Mark's sister). Her porch is really nice and has lots of seating.

Here we are at the farm of a friend and we are all sitting outside on the porch. Long conversations, lots of laughter, and even some silence happened that weekend.

Look at this - Mark and I were having porch time in Austria. This was a cool, family-owned hotel. Our friends, Susan and Mark, were in the room next to us and they were on their porch, too!

We even used our porch and front sidewalk for a covid baby shower.

I didn't even talk about our top porch! There is a door from the loft area upstairs onto that porch. We used to sit up there more often, but right now, the chairs up there aren't that great. Because of the Alabama heat (and mosquitos), we have at least two ceiling fans on every porch.

One thing that makes me very sad is the fact that I am horribly allergic to pollen - pretty much all pollen. The weather here has been so nice but I can only stay outside a few moments at a time. I told Mark that it isn't fair that some people have NO allergies and can be outside as much as they want.

Do you have a porch? Do you get to enjoy the outdoors all you want or are you like me . . .and have lots of allergies? (Yes, I am on meds and shots, but my allergies are over the top bad).