It's Official - House Naming

When I lived in North Carolina and summered at the beaches along the coast. It always amused me to see how people named their beach houses. Beautiful, funny names. Wealthy people typically named their homes but our house upstate is on the smaller side and it seemed like it was a little pretentious to name it but we have lived here long enough and love it so much that we felt that it has become it's own character like in a book or movie. So, it had to have a name. When we first started coming up here, we couldn't believe how beautiful the property was when all of the ferns came up and filled the woods all around our house. When you drive up our driveway, the entire frontage of our property is filled with Bracken fern. It's tall and lush and a little invasive but very pretty. Since we are a fern family and Tim's Dad was a fern specialist for New York Botanical Gardens and elsewhere - we thought it would be appropriate to call it Brackenwood. It sounds very GOT somehow. So, while we were over at the Delaware County Fair we happened to come across a booth that made house signs. We decided to do it since I have proscrastinated for so long. It's official - we now have a house sign - welcome to our home, Brackenwood.