This is my usual 'wiew from the deck' picture. The 'butterfly bush' (so-called because it attracts all the butterflies) is already past full bloom. I took a picture last week to start the series, but lost both the picture and my enthusiam to the
This is looking down the driveway, which the weeds are already trying to take over since it's the only place on our property that gets a lot of sun. That will end (thankfully!)when the trees begin to fill out and the driveway/road becomes a tunnel.
Here's the fire pit area. It's still pretty clear from my taking the brush down a couple of years back, but I can tell it going to need another weed control effort again this year. The trees are still pretty much bare; no buds evident yet.
Now down to the pond. It's pretty this time of year, with the growth along the water's edge pretty killed off by the cold. But be not discouraged, it's beginning to come back. There's more brush cutter work today, and lots of work behind the dam where the pond overflowed in recent heavy rains (I just yesterday recovered two 50-foot sections of 4" drain pipe which had washed a couple of hundred yards down the creek in the 'flood'.
Our new addition this year is the fountain that was installed by our neighbor a couple of months ago. In the late afternoon there's always a rainbow showing in the mist. I hope that'll last (we need a few rainbows these days) but my guess is that it will go when the trees fully leaf out.
And lastly, our house, taken from the dock. It's late afternoon, so the slope is mostly in shadow. The leaf growth hasn't started yet, but as the summer goes on the house will slowly disappear. The tree you can see leaning is dead. It'll probably come down this year, but at most it'll displace a squirrel or two and take out part of the stair rail if I don't have it attended to first.
Until next week, then - unless as seniors we're confined inside the house by the
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