21 February 2008

A special gift





Today I'm welcoming some special guests who would like to introduce their very own piece of heaven to you - in their words and pictures and, obviously, from their hearts.

The Surles Estates is a privately owned property, now For Sale by Owner. To access YOUR ridge top land, you will drive through a secluded mountain cove to your private driveway. Almost three acres (2.84) of lush hardwoods, this gorgeous house site boasts electricity, a five-hundred foot deep well, and a spectactular view. Through the crystal clear air of the Appalachian Mountains, you can see two towns away to the highest point in Georgia, Brasstown Bald.

Soon it will be Spring and the sourwood trees will blossom with hundreds of thousands of small white flowers from which the owner, Michael Surles’ bees make golden honey. Then come the yellow and purple violets and dwarf iris. Later there will be more rare varieties of wild flowers found only in this area.

In Summer there is every kind of cooling, exhilarating fun on spectacular nearby lake Nottely. Cozy Cove boat dock will take care of your boat and sell you the bait to fish the pure cool waters. Or sun yourself and the kids at the man-made beach.

In Fall, the foliage will become a dazzling spectrum of colors and the annual pageants of the Arts, Local Indigenous Music, Storytelling and hand-made Crafts Fairs will commence.

As Winter comes on, the tourists will leave. What they don’t know is that in some ways, winter is the best season. By a cozy fire, with a good book or with the entire world (via high speed Internet-DSL access ) at your fingertips, you can de-stress. Or conduct your own business affairs as you sip hot chocolate in your ‘jammies’ and look out upon the bare bones of the oldest mountain range in the world. This private landscape will sometimes be covered with lacy, luminescent ice, or with beautiful brushings of snow. (And in Georgia the winter days will be interspersed with some clear and spring-like ones as well……)

With the thriving international metropolis, Atlanta, Georgia, only a short two-hour drive south, you could travel all over the world or simply enjoy big-city culture for an evening.

Are you ready to leave the Old World behind and begin writing your own personal history? Become landed gentry (with property to pass down to your family) in the New World. Or invest in a second home in the United States. There is no better time, especially since the exchange rate is all in YOUR favor right now…..

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Janet- this looks great-! I will send it to everyone I know including my friends, Lenie and Joseph Kleingeld in Rotterdam....Susan Muse

janet said...

Susan:
...I WANT it myself, sigh!

Anonymous said...

Janet- your blog site has been to Holland and now to New York City to two friends there, Janet Nolan an artist and sculptor, and Rhonda Naidich, a teacher of the Dramatic Arts, English as a second language and a talented photographer.
Next stop, it will go to a writer I know in Paris, Jean Jaques Greif. So, native Irishmen and women, look lively---the World will soon be coming to Janet Doyle's door for her unique real estate offerings(!)...Susan Muse