December 2009
The deck is finished! Well, not quite. The iron worker has had a dickens of a time getting all the railings to fit. I guess our deck is not square. Duh. Nothing in our house is square. You can drop a marble on some of the floors and it comes alive. Here are the pictures of the railings. We have Christmas lights on them which looks so festive at night. I may never take them off.
we have railings
front entrance
close up view of the railing
crazy angle (sorry) - taken from the dining room - if you look close you can
see that this is the only part that is unfinished
October 2009
There are lots of pictures – all taken within the past few years. There were no gardens or studio on this property 20 years ago. Because of 2008/9’s cold winter, a few wind storms, old age or bad placement, some plants have changed. It may be hard to get the idea of how this is laid out, but these pictures will give you an bit of a tour. I’ll add more when the railings are installed.
west side with new expanded deck - waiting for railings
studio/garage - summer
studio - winter
studio in spring with kousa dogwood in bloom
between studio and house (before we pulled off the railings and clad the posts)
steps to studio from the house
steps between the driveway and house - old railings
front of the house - waiting for new railings - that is the neighbor boy, Louis (the cat), in the foreground
Backyard
taken from the dining room
last winter's snow storm. I would take pictures and base the accumulation by the height of the snow on the chair
spring - the dogwoods at the base of the tree are barely showing their leaves
ornamental cherry in bloom
snow covered ornamental cherry
ornamental cherry in fall - pretty red maple below
a shot of the side yard before the deck was extended
shot from the studio deck
we lost that beautiful new zealand flax last winter - everything else is bigger
to the left of the sculpture is a pathway leading to the gardens below
There are four ways to get there unless you are a dog or a cat – then there are innumerable ways.
the new rose arbor - also leading to the garden below
a little bench in case you are weary on the path
one of two stone pathways between the upper and lower yard - and lulu
the fall version
The second set of stone steps and the fire-pit that Ken and Alex built. Lots of good laughs around this pit. To the right is our vegetable garden - 17 x 27.5 (a golden rectangle). We just fenced it to keep out the critters. To the left is a huge raspberry patch with red & golden raspberries.
the newly fenced vegetable garden
a stand of black bamboo next to the garden shed
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