Purchased as an estate sale in 2007, the authors began a three-year restoration of an 1880s era Victorian brick home. Though lovingly maintained, the beautiful home needed restoration of plaster walls, updating of the kitchen and bathrooms, removal of carpeting and restoration of hardwood flooring downstairs and soft pine flooring upstairs. A 1970s era addition was replaced with two wings and a basement. Outside all grass was eliminated, replaced by an enclosed courtyard, and a brick patio overlooking a waterfall.
About the Author
Lola Reid Allin
BlackJaguar
Ontario, Canada
At age six I began formal art lessons with Phillipa Faulkner. At the University of Waterloo, (Psych’87) I studied psychology, genetics, and anthropology. During my ten-year career in commercial aviation I piloted single- & multi-engine land and floatplanes acquiring nearly 6,000 hours of flight time. Spurred by my lifelong appreciation of indigenous cultures, I relocated to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula (1993-96) to commence an ethnographic study of K’eckchi, Mopan, and Lacandon Maya. I return regularly to continue my photographic journal of their lifestyles. My articles and photographs have appeared online at National Geographic, in “The National Post”, “The Globe and Mail”, "The Toronto Star", Mundo Maya, The Doctor’s Review (print & on-line), Verge Magazine, Mexican National Tourism Board publications, WWF-Canada, and have been used for promtion by WWF-Canda & WWFCuba (CITMA), African Culture Safaris (Tanzania), Royal Expeditions (India), MEDICO, & Medecins sans Frontieres-Canada
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