Where I Live

I really love living in Union.

Considering this small town we moved to back in March is just 45 minutes away from our previous home in Winthrop, I've been surprised how different life is here.

Union is small - just a little over 2,000 - and mostly rural, with beautiful vistas on nearly every road you drive down. We pass close to a dozen large and small lakes on the way to Wal-Mart, where we are treated to glimpses of the Atlantic Ocean.

But that's not the best part.

What I love about it is the feeling of small-town living...visiting with neighbors, everyone knowing everyone else, everyone knowing the house we live in, buying fresh eggs and beef from a farm down the street, getting free firewood from someone when I asked if I could buy it and free ice cream cones from a farm store that wasn't even open yet, living within walking distance of friends...and the street signs - oh, these street signs!

Aren't they the cutest things you've ever seen?? This one is across the street from our house and there were actually birds living in it this summer!

Now how many people can say they have birds living in their street signs? :)