Therefore, we're all taking a tour... you don't mind do you?
Just think of it like being the younger sibling again. You know, the poor kid that gets dragged to every piano recital, band performance and horribly boring basketball game (what IS that smell?) and gets told, "Just hush, we'll be going home soon" (soon meaning within the week).
The tour:
Let's look out over the garden from upstairs first:
Let's look out over the garden from upstairs first:
This is from Miss Ky's room looking down on the center point of the garden.
Look a little to the left...
and a little more to the left...oooh, ahhh.
If we were magic and could fly down there, this is what it'd look like from that angle.
BUT we can't fly, so quick!Back downstairs.
This is one of the little "paths" that have been created with the shrub features...
There's several of these maze-like hiding spots and they all have something different to reveal. One has an apple tree, one has a huge flowering bush (which at the moment is NOT flowering and in need of a haircut), and one has a large twisting tree with a bench just underneath waiting for me to plop a squat on it with a great book...sometime around August.
Let's head back to the house.
stinking moles.
stinking moles.Now we'll start on the patio area.
Seriously, you're already tired? Have you seen a doctor about that?
(we're walking backwards, but you'll be fine, I moved the balls out of the way)
If you go to the right and walk up the steps back to the garden level, you get here:
On the right of this is the other pond-- very overgrown with water lillies and pampas grass
from above that pond.
Can you imagine what it will look like cleaned up and blooming?!
And isn't the weather crazy here, sunny one minute and frosty the next?
No, these pictures weren't from the same day, or even the same month for that matter.
See, it didn't take that long and you didn't even have to suffer that sweaty sock smell from the gymnasium.
I'm still taking reservations for the summer.
