Cobblestone Village

We’ve lived here, Nanette and I. Not in this precious village I’ll grant you, but in many like it during our long and lovely stay in the English Cotswolds. Cobblestone Village conveys the qualitative difference between life in an English village and an American small town. The pace of life in Cobblestone Village seems a century removed from what we typically find in our fast-paced culture. English country life is slow, rich, and satisfying. Activity centers on the village to an extraordinary degree. People come daily for the bakery, dairy, green grocery, butcher shop…as well as the warm conversation and fellowship that truly sustain life.

The gathered town folk in Cobblestone Village are as natural, as informal, as the overgrown hedges of flower that line the lane. It’s a most satisfying way of living. As an artist I find the tumbledown charm and rich detail of rural English architecture fascinating – particularly the amazing juxtaposition of a variety of styles and structures. Where else can you find humble stone cottages beside rambling half-timbered Tudor homes while a soaring Gothic church looms in the distance? Truly, there is a spice to village life.