It is like stepping back in time. No alarm system. No fancy designs. The steps leading upstairs and smaller steps leading to different rooms upstairs are uneven and not quite level. Ducking your head during certain parts of your movement from level to level and room to room is required.
The courtyard is filled with plants and flowers of all kinds.
The stillness is exquisite.
With the new so much has been lost. How to explain simple in such a complex world. How to explain subtle in a world demanding excess.
The bicycles lean up against the kitchen wall. The skylight shoots the sun and the moon beams from wall to glass to mirror and fills the rooms with a warmth only nature can offer.
At moments like this there is unity. It is not man vs nature. It is not man vs his environment.
It is not a division of energy. It is a oneness. At moments like this it makes sense. No one or no thing is trying hard to prove anything. Relaxation fills this space. A farm house on a quiet ridge. 
It is timeless.
Ageless.