Sunday, January 21, 2007

Cold Sunlight, but at Least it is Sunlight

I like details, but I like overviews, too. These are pictures of the front yard taken today. To see it naked and barren helps me think about what I want to do in the spring. The frontyard pond had a layer of ice, a solid layer of ice. I have no fish in there so I don't have a heater keeping an opening clear.
These are my painted Adirondack chairs. I love the color although I forget the official name of it. I painted some of the knobs on the fencepost the same color. It makes me happy to see it. Maybe gaudy, maybe garish, but definitely perky.
I want to finish the walkway down to the gate so we don't have to tramp through the mud to get to the car. I won't park my car in the garage anymore because I read about how bad it is to have the car fumes coming into your house. So to play it safe, I park outside the garage and we all freeze our bums off in the morning when we get in to go to school and work.
And this is a view of my barren vegetable beds. There are strawberries, asparagus, Chinese chives, mint, lilies, sorrel, thyme, garlic and lavendar sleeping there, but I have plans to uproot and rearrange come late April. These are the only kinds of beds I'm interested in making.

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