Cynthia’s home and garden with heart

Last period I visited my person Cynthia Deegan’s location and garden, this clip with Jennifer Jewell of Cultivating Place, who was successful municipality to springiness a Garden Spark talk. I wanted Jennifer to conscionable Cynthia and spot the soulful, joyful retreat she’s created astatine her Tarrytown bungalow with hubby Bobby. Sandwiched successful an improbable mode betwixt MoPac/Loop 1 and its feeder road, the location defies its determination done the couple’s originative screening, planting, and decorating, which focuses the regard connected the plot alternatively than what lies beyond. Cheekily, Cynthia and Bobby telephone their location Via Libre, aka Freeway.

You participate the beforehand plot done rustic, yellow-green doors, nether the orangish blossoms of crossvine. Hands, ineffable hearts, and angel wings — Cynthia’s milagros, Mexican charms for extortion and bully luck — are tacked up connected the doors.

Inside the courtyard, a lushly planted pond with a dripping fountain offers the dependable of trickling h2o and a beautiful, expansive presumption from wrong the tiny house.

A affable look brought to beingness with fig ivy and sticks-on-fire greets you from a model box.

Inside, Cynthia indulges her collector’s bosom with curated displays of books, art, and recovered treasures.

Antlers, hearts, and bones are repeating motifs — expressions of Cynthia’s emotion for quality and the divine.

Milagros, chromatic eggs, and tiny skulls are gathered into this tabletop nest.

On different shelf, spiritual votives flicker amid collected bosom stones and silvered glass.

Cynthia has a endowment for turning thrifted items into a communicative astir her beingness and loves. She does the aforesaid happening astatine Artful Eclectic, her booth astatine the monthly Wimberley Market Day. Her booth is presently connected hiatus portion Cynthia and Bobby acquisition “his and hers associated surgeries.” But she’ll beryllium backmost astatine it soon, selling her beautiful, upcycled creation and decor successful the caller year.

On a buffet I admired a show of autumn snacks laid retired for visiting grandchildren…

…and a beauteous tray of wines and glasses for much mature visitors.

Cynthia amazed maine with a poem she’d written retired successful longhand, a meditation connected aging and the joyousness inactive to beryllium recovered successful nature.

A treasured gift! I tin inactive perceive her low, calm dependable speechmaking it to us. Thank you, Cynthia, for each the bosom and psyche you stock with everyone privileged to cognize you.

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