House Comparison

So I meant to put this little post up a long time ago, but I never had all my pictures on a computer where I could conveniently do it....but now with our new computer, I can!

This is just an interesting little exercise in seeing how early your likes and dislikes are shaped. Or maybe it's destiny. I got the last boxes of my stuff out of my parents' basement after we moved into our new house, and, among the odds and ends, found this picture I painted in 8th grade:


This house bears no resemblance to any house I had lived in at the time, or any house I knew particularly well. I just invented it as a "nice house". Now, you'll have to ignore the problems of perspective (I never was a great artist!) and take a look at the house we just bought:















I think it's kinda creepy!