And while I'm picture-ing

[zoethe]

Quick shot of me and misia in our back yard when she was visiting. Just look at how everything has grown! I need to get out there with a machete!

Misia and Gini

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[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

We could roll down the hill to the bench :-) I wish I could figure out how to post photos of this disaster. Someone in the past planted about a dozen daffodil bulbs at the back of the lot (and at the bottom of the hill, so the only way to enjoy them is to wade down to them). The back drops off into a little creek ravine and has something like two tiers to it and the second tier fades to the drop off. There is a VW Bug sized lilac monstrosity, at the edge of the first to second tier, that I would love to salvage, so I cut back on it some every year in hopes that it will recover. The very top is a respectable little back yard, so I'm not sure why someone tried to reclaim all of it, none of the other neighbors have as deep of yards as we do. I am seriously considering digging up the Daffodils and replanting them and letting the Honey Locust and Honeysuckle have their way with the back. We don't have any large wildlife because of the fencing on either side and lack of back yard neighbors. I'd love to put in butterfly/hummingbird flowers rather than the "wildweed". We'll see what the spring holds for my scary backyard.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

At some point I should make a trip down there, just to see this yard of yours. I'm jealous of anyone who has a creek!

[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

You could, but to say I have a creek in my backyard is more like saying "I have this cliff at the back edge of my property that drops about 20-30 feet and then there's a creek at the bottom". In order to enjoy it I'd have to hang from one of the trees that's outside of the fenced off part to see it. I need a tree house...

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Sounds like all kinds of possibilities! All you need is oodles of money! ;-)

[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

Isn't that all we really need? Then I could watch the hawk and the owl that live in the back. It was very cool when the hawk perched on the dead tree branch that was framed by the honeylocust tree, my daughter was completely mesmerized.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

It's great having that access to wildlife. We aren't really far from a nature preserve, but we don't get there nearly enough.