4/1/2012 finished new room addition ...

Here is the finished new addition where we enclosed the existing garage. Now, of course, we have to build a new garage ...

4/1/2012 hill beside the stairs ...

Just another view of the steep slope planted with monkey grass ... I'm having a senior moment coming up with the name of that bush. Old-fashioned hydrangea I think? Anyway, you used to see them in every farm yard here in the south. These old-fashioned ones grow to 12 ft. tall and 12 ft. wide. I probably have 5 or more of them planted around here. They're still fairly young--just now beginning to show some real growth.

4/1/2012 monkey grass

a hill of monkey grass on the side of the stairs...

4/1/2012 back yard stairs

Here's the back yard stairs again...a view from the top going down, down ... maybe the row of trees planted on both sides will show up in this pic.

4/1/2012 steep stairs view

At the top of the steep stairs. I'm trying to develop a densely planted smallish city garden here. Mainly because, I may have a large back yard, but I don't want to climb those stairs up and down for any reason.

4/1/2012 back yard

Another view of our back yard. You can probably see that the stairs are steep but it's hard to see the dogwoods that are planted up and down both sides of these stairs in the style of an allee. You can see one of the old-fashioned hydrangeas. It's young--not showing its' 12 ft x 12 ft potential size yet.

4/1/2012 view of our back yard

It's steep in case you can't really see this in the pic. Looks a bit "rural" but we're in-town actually. There's a creek at the bottom where you can only see an "edge" but across that creek many, many back yards start rising steeply up a hill.