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

[writerscramp]

LOVE IT! Looks terrific and I'm so excited for you that your cozy little outdoor retreat is back in order. Just outside your sweet little kitchen, and here's this little oasis. Just lovely.

[darkemeralds]

I'm about ready to go nuts for lack of a door between the two, but Ed assures me that it's coming the day after tomorrow. Yay!