A Habitat house in Louisville

Where I live, the application process for a Habitat home is underway. It is a great program. A few years back, I was walking around a “transitional” neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, when I saw a woman out watering plants and adjusting the lawn decor in front of her house. I stopped to admire her work. She had decorated the house and yard to claim it as hers, and I complimented her on what she had done. She told me it was a Habitat house, and she proudly rejoined that she only had two years to go in paying for the house. I stopped to think today that it must now be all hers, and I am happy for her. She was shy to have herself in any photo and moved inside the glass front door while I took a half roll of film on my medium format camera.