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Seasonal Living

A house is a different house in February. Light, maintenance, energy, and the rhythm of a year in a Pennsylvania home.

First snow on a farmhouse porch with stacked firewood and a lit window at dusk

The Commonwealth, generally · 7 min read

A Pennsylvania house in February

The month that tells you the truth about a house, and the maintenance rhythm that keeps the truth manageable.

A Pennsylvania farmhouse porch in early September with low golden light, potted herbs, a worn wooden chair and fields behind

Lancaster, Berks and York Counties · 8 min read

The turn from late summer into fall

Six weeks in a Pennsylvania house when the light changes, the garden finishes, and the building quietly asks for attention before the weather does.

A gravel woodland path at the edge of a neighborhood with wildflowers and a runner

Chester County · 7 min read

Living near a Chester County trailhead

A trail at the end of the street changes a household's habits more than a bonus room does. It also changes parking, mud and what the back of your house is for.

Paint sample cards on a windowsill in cool daylight beside a mug and brush

Berks County · 6 min read

Paint, north light and a Berks County winter

The color that looked warm in the store will look green in February. Choosing paint is mostly choosing which light you believe.

An overgrown spring garden with peonies, a brick path and a woman kneeling with clippers

Lancaster and Chester Counties · 6 min read

The garden you inherit

Buy an older Pennsylvania house and you buy someone else's forty years of planting. The first rule is to wait a year before you dig anything up.

Gutters, a ladder and fallen leaves outside a house on a clear October morning

Pennsylvania · 6 min read

The October list

There is a two week window every autumn in Pennsylvania when a handful of small jobs prevent most of the expensive winter phone calls.

A lamplit sitting room in winter with a blanket, books and snow visible through the window

Pennsylvania · 6 min read

A small house in winter

There is a size at which a house stops being managed and starts being lived in. It is usually smaller than people expect, and winter is when you find out.

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Seasonal Living

A Pennsylvania house in February

The turn from late summer into fall

Living near a Chester County trailhead

Paint, north light and a Berks County winter

The garden you inherit

The October list

A small house in winter

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