a new outside

I realize I'm a little late in posting this and many of you have been asking for these photos, but now I'm finally posting the results of our holiday-time painting job.

As a reminder, here are the before photos:






And, here's my beautiful house now:

who says it doesn't snow in l.a.?

After a very gray and wet week, we had about four hours of sunshine on Saturday. This is what the view looked like out of my backyard. I've been here for 21 months and I've never seen snow like this on these mountains. It was so pretty! But, then it got gray and started raining again. I haven't seen the tops of these mountains since.