Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Yard

After making yesterday's post, I realized it makes no sense to just say the yard needs work without actually showing what I mean....

So this is one of the flower beds towards the back of the yard. I've swept out enough of the leaves to show the nice shape. It's cool, right? If we pull out all of the weeds and truly clear out the leaves, it'll look really lovely. But we've got to do battle with stuff like this first...

First, you can see the massive amount of ivy and overgrowth. There's actually a raised bed with a short retaining wall around it, but it's covered with ivy, which is also covering the entire back stone wall. And, as a testament to Mrs. Serpico's failure to maintain the yard diligently, perhaps you can see the "mystery lawnmower" under that bush... alongside a plastic trash bag of... something. These items became visible only after the leaves fell off of the trees. I'm guessing we'll need to get them out of there eventually.


This is the corner of our yard next to our neighbor's yard. They obviously don't mind the ivy, but the amount of ivy in our yard is ridiculous. It's out of hand. Too much. I don't think we can pull all of that ivy out of there without some serious help. Hell, I don't want to pull that ivy out of there.
Yes, somewhere back behind that ivy is a nice stone wall.

OK, I've convinced myself. I'm calling a landscaping company.

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