Well, Would You Look at the Time...

Is it April already? Has it really been four months since I've posted anything?

Ooops. Sorry.

I shall attempt to make up for it with a series of fascinating and reasonably-spaced accounts of the various Projects I've been working on. Will that help? I'll start with one I just finished today. I didn't think to take any "before" pictures, because really... who would want to take a picture of THAT? If it were pretty enough for a picture, I wouldn't've ripped it out and dugged it up and redoned it, right? Well, what I did was take out all the weeds, spider plants (which grow like weeds around here), and dead trees in little pots that didn't make it through the freeze (that's right - freeze. It got down below 20 for two or three nights in a row in January)... the sections of rusty iron fence I found beneath the dead plants... the odd terra cotta pot laying on its side in the dirt... I took all that out from the corner of the back yard and replaced it with this:

The bushes are Photinia. Their new growth is a nice, dark red. Other than that, they are pretty bushlike. I put some of that deep red volcanic rock around them, and a row of zinnias in front of them on the fence side. There really wasn't enough room to put them along the house wall, too.

And here are some of my friends who helped me with this project:

Of course I can't thank everyone; there simply isn't enough time. I'll have to save some of it for the next Project: herb garden.