The bounty of a Sunday morning stroll through the grounds.

Summer is wonderful here.  Gentle breezes, beautiful blue skies, garden fresh vegetables and God given treats right here in the fertile soils that grace the Eastern shore.

A few minutes stroll through the grounds this morning resulted in fresh, ripe peaches and figs to accompany the sizzling bacon and French toast for breakfast!

  

and there are even pears for cooking later!

Life, it’s what happens while you are busy making plans.  

 5 spacious bedrooms, 3 full baths, 2 half baths, approximately 3,500 s.f. and almost 3.5 acres all for under $350,000.00 – what are you waiting for?  You are about to miss the home of your dreams! Call 757.678.7200 to make an appointment today.

Figs from the backyard, peaches from the front yard and eggs from a neighbor.  Add some fresh orange juice and bacon . . . the end result is an outstanding breakfast with french toast to rival any 5 star resort!

Make plans to see this beautiful 1886 Victorian on the Virginia Eastern Shore.  This home is currently available for sale.  The owner is a licensed Virginia Real Estate Broker with Bay Breeze Realty and would be happy to cooperate with your agent.  There is currently a 4% commission offered to the selling agency.  

Come for a visit and stay for a lifetime!  A 3,500 s.f. Victorian with high ceilings and beautiful wood floors.  Five bedrooms, three baths, two half-baths.  First floor bedroom or family room, den, numerous outbuildings, mature trees and shrubs, thousands of flowers.  

The only thing missing is YOU!

You can stop looking.  You just found the home of your dreams!

Make an appointment today to see this lovely home.

(757) 678-7200

Eastern Shore Virginia 1886 Victorian Featured in Washington Times

Hey! That’s me!

This week’s Washington Times Friday Home Journal has a GREAT feature article about me!!

Resort living: Business or leisure on Eastern Shore

Whether your dream is to live in a quiet country village with a population of a few dozen people or you want to enjoy the lifestyle of an innkeeper in a charming bed-and-breakfast on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, you may want to take a drive to Eastville, Va.

The Victorian home at 6058 Willow Oak Road in Eastville, in Northampton County, was built in 1886 and has had just three owners in the past 125 years. This quiet property 15 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel is on the market for $348,843.

The grounds of the estate, which covers almost 3 1/2 acres, include hundreds of trees, flowering shrubs and perennials, including a 125-year-old walnut tree planted when the house was built. The temperate weather in this pocket of the Eastern Shore encourages an abundance of blooms all year long, including dogwoods, crape myrtles, weeping cherry trees, forsythia, a bay tree, gardenias and rhododendrons. The grounds include a 100-year-old English boxwood garden.

See the Washington Times Friday Home Journal article here:

Resort living: Business or leisure on Eastern Shore

Got Vegetables?

Do you dream of being self-sufficient and growing your own vegetables?  If you lived here, you could have enough space on your own property to grow all the vegetables you would need to feed your family!  You could also have fresh parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme at your finger tips!  There is also a bay tree that stands well over 30 feet tall for seasoning your spaghetti sauce or gumbo.  And if you were truly blessed, your neighbor might even bring you vegetables as beautiful as these. . .

Life, it’s what happens while you are busy making plans.  

Make plans to see this beautiful 1886 Victorian on the Virginia Eastern Shore.  This home is currently available for sale.  The owner is a licensed Virginia Real Estate Broker with Bay Breeze Realty and would be happy to cooperate with your agent.  There is currently a 4% commission offered to the selling agency.  

Come for a visit and stay for a lifetime!  A 3,500 s.f. Victorian with high ceilings and beautiful wood floors.  Five bedrooms, three baths, two half-baths.  First floor bedroom or family room, den, numerous outbuildings, mature trees and shrubs, thousands of flowers.  

The only thing missing is YOU!

You can stop looking.  You just found the home of your dreams!

Make an appointment today to see this lovely home.

 (757) 678-7200

The Gardenias are in bloom!

The pungent perfume of the gardenias fill the front and back porches,

the kitchen and every bedside table!

With the winter blooming camellias there is something in bloom twelve months out of the year, but the gardenias offer a perfume that is only rivaled by the peony.  The mature gardenias that grace my front and rear yard are both over seven feet tall.  I look forward to their beautiful blooms and glorious scent every year, and you will too!

Life, it’s what happens while you are busy making plans.

What are you waiting for?  You could have spent a great weekend unwinding on the Eastern Shore and celebrated Father’s day doing what you love; spending time with the family, fishing, golfing or just laying in the hammock and reading a good book!

Call today to schedule a tour, this home is AVAILABLE FOR SALE.

The owner is a licensed Virginia Broker.

Thank you for your service.

If you are an American, you owe your freedom and unending gratitude to the brave individuals (and their families left at home) that have risked, and in some cases given, their lives so that you and I and our families can continue to live in the greatest Country in the world. Thank you for your service. What you have given can never be repaid.

 

 

Thank you Toronto Sun!

Thank you to the Toronto Sun for the great exposure!  The weather is beautiful, don’t you wish you were HERE?!

YES!!! This home IS AVAILABLE!  If in doubt, please check with the owner directly: (757) 678-7200 and note: The owner is a Licensed Virginia Broker with Bay Breeze Realty, P.O. Box 1005, Eastville, VA 23347

Living in 1886 . . .

It is hard for modern day folks to imagine life in 1886.  Well, I was there.  That is the year I was built.

It is no wonder the ‘Fainting Couch’ was popular.  It was a necessity of the day as women wore fashions that so

restricted their waistlines that it was not uncommon for a woman to faint!

Funny, the more things change the more they stay the same.  It is curious to see the  Harper cartoon that highlighted one of the anarchists of the day, Johann Most; an individual that was a leader in the labor movement of the day.

There was also the accident off the coast of Cape Cod when the schooner Jennie R. Morse, from Philadelphia heading for Boston, was run in to and sunk by an unknown steamer on the night of May 1-2, off Cape Cod.  Thankfully, all hands were saved. She had a cargo of 800 tons of coal.

And Van Gogh was busy painting poppies, lovely red poppies. . .

So, if you are looking for a special house that will be a blessing to own, you can stop looking.  You just found the home of your dreams!

Arrange an appointment to come and see me today.  For an appointment call (757) 678-7200, you will be glad you did.  They don’t build them like me any more, you know?!

Did you know that exactly where I am located happens to be one of the longest growing seasons in the region? You know what that means, right?  It means the weather right here, where I am, is the mildest for the longest period of time — every year.

Life, it’s what passes you by while you are busy making plans.  Isn’t it time to start living?  If you lived here you would spend more days enjoying your life with your family & friends.  Boating, fishing, hunting, gardening, biking, birdwatching, horseback riding or just unwinding on the swing with a good book.

In 125 years my owners have enjoyed me so much I have rarely changed hands.  In fact, in all that time, I have had only 3 owners.  May I be a blessing to you as I have been to those before you!

Fresh Strawberries, red, ripe and delicious!

Mmmm, strawberry season on the Eastern Shore.  If you lived here you would have enjoyed fresh picked and perfectly ripe strawberries today.  Just sayin’

1886 Victorian featured in London Free Press publication

Oh, hello!  Thank you so much for stopping by.  Would you care for a cup of tea?  I was just writing a short note to my cousin, Twelve Oaks:

Twelve Oaks!  Look!  Pretty soon I’ll be as popular as you!  Can you believe it, there I am! Featured in a London publication!

http://www.lfpress.com/homes/2011/05/05/18109466.html

Your real estate agent called.

She said you can stop looking.  You’ve found the home of your dreams!

Life.  It’s what happens while you are busy making plans.

Escape the city, buy this great home in the country today.    Yesterday was the tomorrow you had planned for; how’d that work out for you?

It’s time for you to start living.  Today.

Congratulations to Animal Kingdom on winning the Derby!

  If you were here, you could have saddled-up and gone for a ride when you were finished watching the Kentucky Derby!

Congratulations to my friend, “Animal Kingdom” on the wonderful win at the Derby today!!