The beginning of the backyard

Another outside post

 can you tell I am getting anxious

~to get outside~

This Pacific NW weather

has been grueling this spring..

When we moved here 4 years ago

we had a backyard water feature

well two of them...

~neither one worked~

Can you tell there are two ponds

at the bottom

and neither one would hold water

The Hubs tried his darndest to fix it...

the guys who put on the back patio tried too

~nothing worked~

So we hired a fountain guy to come out to re-do it

he tore the bloody thing out

and started over

The Hubs sat out here for a week

with those guys and watched as they created

~a masterpiece~

Now there is one pond with

several waterfalls

While that big tractor thing was here

I asked if they could push back some of the

wild blackberry bushes

I wanted a little backyard up there

and to bury a huge rootball from a fallen tree

someday the Grandkids might need a place to play

right?

2 years ago

Last year it looked like this

This year the Hubs has been working hard

up there

lots of dangerous trees got fell

and lots of burning

has been  going on

And this is what it looks like now

after all his hard work...

 I can just see a play house or tree house up there some day

There is enough room to plant some more evergreen trees

to make it look like a park

 My sweet little

~Weeping White Spruce~

that will be a feature at the top of the waterfall someday

 and look at the weeping japanese red maple that has just opened...

yeah it made it through the planting process...

that will hopefully start weeping down over the waterfall

I come out every morning with my coffee

and sit here

listening to the water softly falling

Somebody else likes it out here too...

I am getting a lot of enjoyment from this

finished project!