Our front yard -- September 5, 2008.
Friday was a pretty good day up here on the Plateau. We didn’t get the rain that the weather people said we might get, but it was cooler than it has been. I was able to get the front yard mowed, and, if I may say so, I thought the yard looked pretty good.
Betsy took the above picture after I had finished mowing. You can see most of our large rose bed with the lawn in the background. The roses are putting on a pretty good display now, and both of us enjoy them very much.
The rose bed still needs some work — the soil still needs to be improved and we still have some problems with erosion. But the roses are doing much better than we dared hope two years ago when we started the rose beds in the front of the house.
I must admit that keeping up with the yard and flowers can be work at times. There are days when I ache all over. But I’ve long thought that getting my hands dirty while helping things grow was good therapy. And on days when the yard looks as good as it did on Friday, I know it’s all worth-while!
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