Spring Landscape Updates -- Trees!

It has been awhile since I posted. We had a bitter cold winter, with some serious snow at times. Once Bryan was out of town and I really needed to figure out how to get out. My daughter and I had just donned our overalls and grabbed our shovels when a neighbor appeared with a bobcat! We have great neighbors!

We even had snow flurries as recently as April 14. But spring is finally here and we are so excited to be able to enjoy being outside!

In the last two weeks the landscapers have returned. They planted some trees....

...and added some stepping stones to direct the patio down to the firepit, with some plants at the edge of the firepit.

 

The also added some mulch to our beds and everything looks really nice. Now we need some nice rain to really get the new grass seed growing and get the trees to green up.

Landscaping -- The Firepit

Landscaping took almost all summer. Like everything else, it was a bigger project than it appeared to be in the beginning. We met with a couple of landscapers before we chose one to go with.

Anyway, it began with the firepit.

Before - with only the very large stones we had put in when we had our retaining walls done

The completed firepit

The church youth group enjoying the finished firepit.