The warm welcome starts as you walk up the curved brick path to the front door. Those same curved brick paths bring you through The Secret Garden.....a happy dwelling place for chipmunks, mini-squirrels, and hundreds of birds that dine at the feeding stations and drink from the birdbaths outside Kristin's Writing Studio. If you keep following the brick path out through the gate at the bottom of The Secret Garden, you see the peaceful lake where swans, mallards, geese and muskrats romp and fish jump for joy in the mid-day sun.