The prompt for this week at Lens-Us-Together is Outside My Back Door.
Outside both my back and front door, we’re surrounded by concrete and gravel…no, it’s neither beautiful nor poetic…although we do have a wooded area behind us where masses of green leaves have magically appeared since we arrived home from Panama.
In the last week or so, we’ve been scouring garden centers for trees, shrubs and plants of all kinds…trying to brings some colour and life to the outside of our new home. We planted a Magnolia and an Acer (small Japanese maple) near our front door a few weeks ago and then again today, we emptied our wallet at the nursery for a hedge of rugosa roses.
Our lot is small and the plan is for low maintenance…no lawn to mow! In our last home it took almost two hours (at a fast trot) to mow the lawn twice a week so when we moved, the pendulum swung a wide arc to no lawn at all.
It will take us a few years to create the vision we have but in the end it will be a place for rest and relaxation; a small studio, two separate patio’s with an outdoor fireplace and water wall and a roof top deck with views of the ocean. I’m looking for as many scented plants as I can find (that will live in this temperate rain forest of ours!) and for colour that unfolds with the seasons.
The instant gratification part of me wants to rush through it and get it done RIGHT NOW, but truly, what I really want is to enjoy the process and watch the vision unfold.
but meanwhile, it looks like this…
and this…
(These pictures were literally just snapped a few minutes ago with Mr. I’s iphone with the funky Hipstamatic app. Fun!)
Thanks for stopping by today and blessings of nurturing and growth to each of you,
