Saturday Snapshot

BEFORE

We spent the Memorial Day weekend working in the yard including cleaning up and reusing the mess of stuff I asked the contractors to save for me from the redo of our big patio last fall. Here are the before and after images.

AFTER

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Saturday Snapshot

I have been thinking a lot about gardens recently. We had raised beds put into what had been a useless bank (covered with weeds) on one side of our house several years ago and this fall are having a similar set of beds put into the bank along our driveway. There are about a million more spaces for plants to go in than I had pictured there would be so this has required a lot of thought about plants and gardens. 

This photo was taken at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco in June 2014. I love the clump of purple iris coming out of the pond and the way the tree reflects in the water. Our new gardens, or the old ones for that matter, look nothing like this.  

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