This is truly an Estate, and in the fine Virginia landed-man's style, I've derived a working name:

Welcome, tired travelers, to:

Xana'02

   Raymond's Pleasure Dome


From the great Orson Welles' exertion towards Mr. Kane's Xanadu, in Citizen Kane.
My accumulated possessions, in many cases, are a micro-version of the panned-over warehouse of crates.  "Rosebud" is in there somewhere, I'm sure.
The '02 is a dual reference to having moved in in 2002 and the last 2 digits of the street address.


The property, in October, November and December, generates many a bag of leaves.



This is the red hydrangea in front, as seen in June and July;

and this is the blue hydrangea in the back.  These bushes need a lot of prudent pruning...


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