Landscape @ MindSay

I hope you all missed me so much this summer!! Here's some pictures. Finally got a bit o' rain that helped with waterflow. This one is by Watkins Glen, NY:

See the Eagle in the cliff on the left?

And this one is in Ithaca, Buttermilk Falls SP:

okay it's not exactly walden pond but it's ours and it feels like paradise.

 

 

the one koi died so we added a dozen darter goldfish. active and less bloated looking. and now we just have to tend the plants and watch them thrive.

here is a view from the topdeck.

 

masochists who want to see it's creation in stages can go here and gaze

We finally got the people who take care of the lawns outside to come yesterday and clean up the look of the place. There is something about the look of freshly mowed grass that makes me grin from ear to ear. I used to love looking out of my grandmother's window after my cousin had mowed her massive yard. Rows and rows of alternating colored green. Magnificent. Landscape Design has long been a passion of mine. When I thought we were getting our house, I bought a book about it and read it from cover to cover. I knew exactly what I was going to do with my yard. The company I was going to have help me would have to get the profile for what I wanted by asking me lots of questions, then go in and make my dream come to life. I read that there is a three "steppingstone" process: planning, designing and implementing. It makes sense to me. I wish sometimes that we did have a house with a well manicured lawn and garden... just the thought of it gives me a euphoric high.