Understand - I am NOT a gardener. I love to look at pretty gardens/flowers, I just don't like the making/maintaining of them. I did 'make' this one, and sometimes I actually maintain it (though hopefully I've got it to a point that it pretty much maintains itself).
There's a hybrid willow out of the picture that starts loosing it's leaves in July - hence my gravel path is mostly leaves at the moment.
If you look closely (or enlarge the photo) you can see the birdbath I posted yesterday - AND, my pink flamingos. There's also another shallow birdbath near the flamingos, though it's so shallow it rarely holds much water. This path goes from my patio area to the pond gate. I created the gravel path and planted all that monkey grass eons ago (not a fun project I might add). Chuck always wanted to 'thin' it - and I threatened him with bodily harm if he touched one blade. I love my path.
Seems like I've been sticking close to home lately. I'm obviously not very good with nighttime shots, but couldn't resist this one. This photo isn't nearly as clear and sharp as I'd like, but when I let the dogs out for the last time last night I turned on the spotlight out in the yard and walked to the end of the deck. The sporlight was shining directly on a portion of these two trees and I was struck by the difference in color. The tree with the green is a sweet gum and the one with the colored leaves is a sycamore (and there are colored leaves on the ground). Both have already lost some of their leaves without much color as it's been so incredibly dry.
This was the view from my back deck this morning. Usually I can see all the way across the pasture into the pine thicket - but only just beyond the yard fence this morning.
