Tucson Home Staging A Serendipitous Occasion
July 3, 2008
Post Tags: decorative_wreath , tucson_summer_heat
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Even in the throws of triple digit temperatures there are times you get out of the car and find yourself smiling. Let me explain.
Divine Intervention or Serendipitous Occasion
Almost everyone trying to sell a home in Tucson reads the papers and listens to the news and is lead to believe the sky is falling and they are doomed. Their house will never sell and if it does they will end up loosing money.
It leads some to put extra effort into making their home stand out from the rest. I wrote about this last week in Leave the AC ON. (It was this same house, yes the AC was on)
One of those extra efforts came in the form of hanging a decorative wreath on the front door. This time of year with the summer heat here in Tucson it is hard to keep living plants, well living. As an alternative to this the home owner hung the wreath on the door.
We went to this home the other day and as we walked to the front entryway I noticed the wreath was different. I thought the lady of the house had added a dove to the top of the wreath.
Thinking to myself “This is a nice touch” when suddenly the dove flew off about 1 inch above Barbara’s head as she was opening the door.
We go in and I’m smiling (I smile a lot) and she said “What was that?” I told her it was a dove that almost flew right through her hair. (You can always create a moment of panic saying anything might be in her hair).
What was a dove doing on the door? I had a hunch. I took out my pocket camera, held it over my head at the top of the wreath and snapped off a shot. Looking at the picture confirmed my suspicions. The dove had built a nest on top of the wreath.
I showed Barbara the picture of the nest with the two eggs in it waiting for mom to return. I kept hoping she would return to the nest so I could get a shot of the door with her on the nest, but no such luck. I guess my serendipitous moment didn’t include that shot.
