the yard and the garden

rock wall, swing, etc. BEFORE:

and after:

The pathway curves around to the stairs which are hidden in this pic, but they go up to the left behind the end of the garden.  The swing is updated for Corrie's 4th b-day (click to enlarge and see the eye bolts?) and notice how the fire pit has survived another season (without any more explosions!).  Also if you click and zoom in, you'll see Spanish Moss growing on the little wall (yellow buds), the Hostas that survived at the end (right), the 'snow-on-the-mountain' low ground cover that is slowly spreading in the bend on the left.  We'll have to take a pic earlier next year so you can see all the flowers.  (I posted the ones by our side door here on my photo blog).

Our garden has a pretty large strawberry patch that my dad started last year (with only about 6 plants).  It's almost taking over, which is nice: we get about 1 small basket of strawberries every day now :)

Check out those roses too!