My little hometown of Kensington, in the hills just North of Berkeley, is a beautiful place. I was walking with my brothers over the Christmas holidays, and I started to notice that there is something very Hobbity about the town where I grew up…
And the more I looked, the more Hobbity things I saw…
These are scenes that I found very close to where I grew up…
So I decided to do a series of posts about just how Hobbity my birthplace is…
Maybe you can all go out and find something Hobbity about where you live and share them with us…
But unless you live in a small English village or New Zealand, I doubt you can do much better than I did…
Because it turns out that I grew up in the Shire.
Pouring My Art Out 
Too cold & too much snow to find Hobbity pictures in my neck of the woods. Looks lovely where you are though!
I just wish I was there more often.
How apropos! Just saw the Hobbit movie last night and was oooing and ahhhhing over the houses in it. My son tells me I must have been a Hobbit in another life because I adore partially underground homes that have lots of small rooms and passages and could be perfectly content with round windows and doors. And you are definitely right! It DOES look like there Shire there! But you are too tall to be a Hobbit or a Dwarf so from what do you suppose you spring? And Ent perhaps?
When I was young I always wanted to be Aragorn/Strider. Being adopted, I figured maybe I was really a prince. The king came to America and had an affair with a Vegas hooker.
That looks beautiful!
Thanks. Not that I am taking credit or anything.
I have always had a thing for little places. Play houses. Dollhouses. Garden sheds. I spent a lot of time in my closet when I was a girl, and it wasn’t abuse either.
It is time to come out of the closet…uh… so to speak…
😀 Oh I have! Every now and then I still like a nice little hidey-hole though.
Those can come in handy.
I always wanted to live in a house with a round door. And I wanted to be able to blow smoke rings that looked like sailing ships, but that’s another story.
That is another story… because that wasn’t in the Hobbit… it was… never mind…
Hee, this made me smile.
Yay.