Recent photos

Here's what I did this week (while Dale was quite ill with bronchitis). I decided that the new area looked kind of funny and that it needed something to fill in the empty space where I'd planted the perimeter. So I made an iris bed around the sun dial. I'll fill in with some more ground cover (creeping thyme, sedum, creeping jenny).


It's always bugged me that the old drainage hole from the formerly open porch looked so ugly. Dale had filled it with a mangey piece of yellow styrofoam. I got him to cut a piece of wood to fill the hole. Then I glued in this face I found at a garden supply place and added some moss for hair. Cute, huh?

And here's how the new railing looks stained. I still have to do another coat and also the underneath side, but it's so much better than the raw wood.