It’s been a year since I last visited Bella’s Lullaby, the homestead region design series by Bella (BellaSwan Blackheart). It is one of several of Bella’s designs I’ve always enjoyed visiting, presenting as it does various pastoral and rural setting for people to enjoy.
At the time of my last visit (see: Bella’s summer Lullaby in Second Life) it presented a varied landscape, surrounded my mountains and suggestive of somewhere in Norway (perhaps). Prior to that, in February 2024, the region lay as a windswept island setting, the location of a modest homestead and watched over by a squat lighthouse (see: A return to Bella’s Lullaby in Second Life).
Welcome to Bella’s Lullaby where the vast, rugged landscapes stretch as far as the eye can see and nature’s beauty unfolds in every direction. The wide-open spaces invite you to breathe deeply and soak in the serenity that surrounds you.
– Bella’s Lullaby About Land description
It is to this latter theme that the region has returned for summer 2025. Which is not to say the current iteration is in any way a simple rehash of the February 2024 design; whilst similar in nature, there are sufficient enough differences between the February 2024 and July 2025 designs to allow the imagination to suggest that both are separate but perhaps within the same group of islands.
Where these island might lie is a matter for you imagination. For me, the setting has always struck me as being somewhere off the coast of Scotland, perhaps among the inner islands there. Or of not, then perhaps tucked away somewhere along Europe’s Wadden or Baltic Sea coastlines. The land is low, devoid of trees, but with a soil rich enough to hold wild grass on which goats and horse might graze, and patches of wild flowers.
Wherever it might lie, this particular island is popular with birds; they are to be found throughout on rooftops, tables, fence posts, circling the lighthouse and elsewhere. Perhaps the island is along a migratory or feeding path; perhaps the bird were carried here by the wind – or perhaps they are keeping and eye on things.
Scattered across the island area number of cabins and shacks, some with strong suggestions of homeliness on the outside, but few furnished within (which is also not to say they are empty shells). Together they present the idea of a rugged settlement, the fires within offering warmth in the face of the cold winds which doubtless make their presence felt across the island.
As well as being watched over by birds, the island is home to roaming horses and goats, and someone is also raising chickens. Also spread across the setting are places to sit and pass the time.
Rugged and caught under what might be a late evening sky, or one seen just before first full light of the rising Sun, Bella’s Lullaby remains an engaging, photogenic visit.
SLurl Details
- Bella’s Lullaby (Forks, rated Moderate)
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