Characterful details, and that makes for good setting. I'm not sure I follow the 'painted apricots' etc.... but I mean, I should, it's totally the sort of craft that goes alongside a farmer's fair sort of thing. It seems there isn't the boring option to try sending the letter through the mail, despite the dialogue (though maybe that is what going to the 'house' ruins is an attempt at, I assume the characters just aren't that impersonal.)