The Secret Garden House

For years my favorite house in Palo Alto has been, what I call, The Secret Garden House. It is magical to say the least. It is a tasteful, large, English cottage with a magnificent, magical garden that peeps out from behind it's lovely fence. Every time friends/family come(s) to visit I try to make time to drive them down Santa Rita to show them my favorite house. I've even thought about borrowing a small child on Halloween so I could trick or treat at this beautiful home. I pass it every week when I walk with my friend, Kathryn.

A couple of months ago I learned that it's Steve Job's house. I guess the cute apple trees out front should have given it away. It makes sense that such a magical house would be the product of a creative genius. It was a little somber going on my weekly walk today. We stopped for a few moments to admire the make shift memorial and talk about how much we love our apple products.

I'm not a mac-fanatic. I own a Dell. But I love love love my new ipod touch. It's user-friendly design made it easy for my techni-phobe Mom to use facetime so I could "talk" to my little sister (who has mental disabilities and is nonverbal) for the first time since leaving home 10 years ago. It's brought our family closer.  That is a gift I will never forget.