Look at our yard, please!

We are slaves to our beautiful yard. Don’t get me wrong: we love our servitude. Up to a point.

It’s just that the older we get, the crazier it seems to be to lavish so much time and effort on maintaining Garden Poet-created landscaping that, mostly, just Laurel and I see.

For we are not the most social of human beings. We rarely entertain (except ourselves) and our rural neighbors are entirely out of sight. Thus when I divide the work we put into the yard by the number of people who visually enjoy the fruit of our labors, the result is miniscule.

However, it dawned on me that if I post these photos, and X number of people look at them, hopefully getting at least a glimmer of “ah, nature” from the images, then our yard’s enjoyment cost/benefit ratio has improved to that degree.

So, enjoy.

Comments

[Laura Griffiths]

Wow, you guys have a BEAUTIFUL yard!!! I'm jealous! Ours looks like a waste dump at times, and I don't even work outside the home- like in an office or retail department or anything. I am a Stay at Home Executive (SHE). And, although I have spent hours upon hours working in our yard, it's just always been so completely out of control, I NEVER get near caught up. And when it rains, forget it, I'm not going out there! I'm lucky to simply get out of bed when the weather stinks- which is most of the time lately. Anyway, very lovely yard, very nice, thank you for sharing your photos with us.

[Dawn]

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to briefly live vicariously in the "land of green"! I live in the Tucson desert -- which has been scorching hot and pretty brown lately. Just looking at your lawn cooled me down 2-3 degrees!