daughters... two out of three...

Nicki is here from Chicago for 10 days...putting her to work...

I moved the swing from the back yard - where no one ever used it - to the front at the end of the driveway...decided I needed something nicer than the gravel around it so Barb got me some small stones...prettier and smoother...

 they were almost finished unloading it before I remembered to take some pictures..

the finished work...

Peete's Landing is in full bloom

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LANDSCAPING UPDATE -# TWO

NICE TIME OF YEAR FOR YARD WORK...not too hot..

just after sunrise...fog lifting over the creek..

the leaves are leaving..

House and Gardens update

Until last week when I went out the side door... this one....to the driveway..

this was what I saw:

the back of David's garage...

now...after several days of hard work by Barb and myself...we have this "work in progress"



the birds like being outside when it's warm enough...



Outdoors

Gardeners are - let's face it - control freaks. Who else would willingly spend his leisure hours wresting weeds out of the ground, blithely making life or death decisions about living beings, moving earth from here to there, changing the course of waterways? The more one thinks about it, the odder it seems; this compulsion to
remake a little corner of the planet according to some plan or vision.

- Abby Adams, What is a Garden Anyway

 

It began with a bench and some caladiums...4/27/10

 

 

At my "house warming party" I received wind chimes, a sun-catcher spinner for the yard, a garden flag, a bird house, 3 crape myrtle trees, a ginko tree, an azalea, a knock-out rose bush,  and with gift certificates I purchases 5 spirea shrubs and  another knock-out rose..

I've added a bird bath, ferns, bird feeders, wind chimes, rocks and a glider..

I had the beautiful little garden angel outside but the geese knocked her over and broke off one wing and both her hands...hot-glued them back on but afraid to put her back outside.

I bought the leaded glass window at the flea market in Nashville....