Back yard

[darkemeralds]

After today, the only thing lacking for me to be able to go from my kitchen through a clean, tidy, non-leaking mudroom into a well-groomed and attractive outdoor living room in the back yard is the door itself.



Up to last week, I had this:


and this:


And now I've got this:


and this:


and this!

(let me tell you, setting up that fountain is a bitch. It weighs about 200 pounds.



A neighborhood landscape company did a lot of the heavy lifting, and there's still some planting to go (jasmine is proposed as a vining cover for the lattice, and I could probably still spend a small fortune in brightly colored annuals and make the space into a parade float) but mostly, it's done, and as soon as I have my damn door I'll be able to proceed directly from coffee-pot to outdoor table on the few weekend mornings I've got left before autumn sets in.

Comments

[bluemeridian]

Woot! Reclaimed!

[darkemeralds]

Precisely! That's just the word for it. I'm delighted. And determined not to let it go wild again.