Today something wonderful is happening in our back yard. Everything is in order. Nothing needs to be done. Unless I wanted to get compulsive, which I usually try to avoid. Last night Hub Man mowed the lawn while I clipped all the dead and dying Shasta Daisies. I pulled weeds and uprooted spent flowers and spread grass clippings over the bare dirt. I coaxed my winter squash plant down off the fence where it had climbed up using some of the tomato plants for ladders and laid it on the new grass clippings. I picked the first ripe tomatoes too.
So in a word, today the back yard is perfection. Or as close to it as our back yard will ever get I suppose. Here is a picture of my "To The Garden" sign that is being taken over by morning glories:
[album 65561 Glories and Old Glory.JPG]
Here it is in better context:
[album 65561 Glories and Squash.JPG]
We actually have a very small back yard, but it is amazing to me how much care it requires. But then we have interesting things. Blackberries, an orange tree, peach tree, tomatoes [six varieties], two [I hope] kinds of melons, one of winter squash, eggplant, parsley, basil, and the already harvested potatoes. Plus all the bushes, potato vine, hydrangia, butterfly bush, lavender and rosemary. And of course the flowers.
It is not very often a tidy garden. But today it is. I'm thinking about moving a comfy chair from the living room outdoors today and spend some time just admiring it.
The other day I had occasion to visit a neighbor's back yard. It was 4 times as big as ours, but it was a conventional yard that every landscaper puts in around here it seems. Grass in the middle and a bunch of non-descript bushes all along the fence with shredded bark under them. It was neat, it was tidy, it was big, and it was boring.
At least today I have neat and tidy.
And that's enough for me.
So in a word, today the back yard is perfection. Or as close to it as our back yard will ever get I suppose. Here is a picture of my "To The Garden" sign that is being taken over by morning glories:
[album 65561 Glories and Old Glory.JPG]
Here it is in better context:
[album 65561 Glories and Squash.JPG]
We actually have a very small back yard, but it is amazing to me how much care it requires. But then we have interesting things. Blackberries, an orange tree, peach tree, tomatoes [six varieties], two [I hope] kinds of melons, one of winter squash, eggplant, parsley, basil, and the already harvested potatoes. Plus all the bushes, potato vine, hydrangia, butterfly bush, lavender and rosemary. And of course the flowers.
It is not very often a tidy garden. But today it is. I'm thinking about moving a comfy chair from the living room outdoors today and spend some time just admiring it.
The other day I had occasion to visit a neighbor's back yard. It was 4 times as big as ours, but it was a conventional yard that every landscaper puts in around here it seems. Grass in the middle and a bunch of non-descript bushes all along the fence with shredded bark under them. It was neat, it was tidy, it was big, and it was boring.
At least today I have neat and tidy.
And that's enough for me.