Leaves and an exposed wall

My gardening companion has been busy. The snow has melted and the temperatures moderated, so he's been busy rooting up English ivy (and removing it from a stone retaining wall on the edge of our landscape in the mountains).  It's not a bad stone wall at all, built with decent looking rocks, with just a bit of rubble and concrete supporting the parking lot for the adjacent apartment building.  I haven't been much help, with a troublesome finger making heavy pulling and clipping not such a great idea.

The bags of leaves, saved this fall, proved useful for additional mulching down the slope. We're both envisioning woodland wildflowers to accompany the trees and shrubs already planted. 

So the transformation from weedy forested ravine to native forested ravine continues...

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Evening view

We've been glad of the rain lately (our drought status has been significantly downgraded, hooray!) But, having warm sunny spring days is always uplifting.


We eat our dinner (and lunch on the weekends) out on the porch. The light this evening was beautiful.


And the view from my study window was lovely, too. I'm always reminded that it didn't always look pleasing, and we're grateful for the transformation.

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