It was chilly and sunny here yesterday, a nice clear day. After last week’s rain, I noticed the new sod is now green out at the easement where they put in the city water pipes last month.  Wow, that was less than two weeks ago.  Now it looks as though it’s always been there.  The bamboo have all lost their leaves, they make such a nice feathery carpet on the garden floor.  Many of the oak leaves are down right now as well, giving a bit of a bleak look to the garden, but it also lets me see what is really there, not hidden behind giant leaves of green.

It was also a time I could re-evaluate how I wanted to change the landscape for the coming year.  I stood in my formerly completely-hidden-from-outside-view front garden and looked right out onto the street and into my neighbor’s yard and front door.  I like to give people their privacy, especially at home, so I looked to see what I could do about that.  I moved a pvc table over to the barest spot, and piled on top of it all the potted plants that like to be under shade.  Some I hung from oak branches.

The spot I moved the table from was now large enough to be the new front pathway into the garden, so I raked the path clean and lined it with fallen branches.  Using my pruners, I carefully cut some low hanging oak branches to give headroom.  I wanted to make sure to leave them long enough in the front for privacy when the leaves began to grow back in, yet short enough behind the front row to easily walk into.  I like for all my paths to be hidden from street view.  No one walking by the house needs to be tempted to peek into my magical secret garden.

I moved some dried bamboo poles over to the front property line, stacked them against the oaks.  It gave a nice gazebo-like feel to the space, and created privacy as well.  I moved a pvc chaise lounge out of the garden and wheeled it to the patio outside my bedroom.  I moved the bamboo windchime to the front inside area as well.  I picked up about 40 dead palmetto fronds and some fallen oak and pine branches.

I love spending my time doing things like that.  I don’t kid myself that I’d like to live on a farm, because I can imagine that is hard work, but I sure like having a hunk of land that is my own, and doing my little landscaping projects.

4:39 am Shuttle Launch this morning was scrubbed, resecheduled to tomorrow morning, depending on the weather.  I turn on channel 13 for the countdown then step out the back door, where I’ll see it in the NE sky. I used to have to walk down the street to get out from under the tree line to see it. Then in 2004 the hurricane took a giant oak down in my back yard, so now I have great view of the northern sky, which is very cool.  I can watch storms roll in, I can watch the shuttle, all from my back porch and back yard.  From my kitchen window in fact.

The last night time launch of the shuttle program.  One more in July ending the shuttle era.
Lotsa changes this year.
Change is good.

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