In an effort to save going out and around and up in the woods (along with being reminded it is tick season), I'm trying a new location I can reach from our yard. I have put the camera on corner fence posts before and had some decent results. So I will try this long branch and see if it works well. It is facing north which is what they recommend. Updates to follow!
June 1 marked 10 years in our home. Looking back at posts from that first year, many didn't include photos. I was just excited to see things. The blog has changed. The way our house looks has changed a little with painting garage doors and our porch. But the best marker of time is something growing...in this case the silver maple tree in our front yard.
We had friends visiting over the weekend and we were looking at that tree. I mentioned we had been here 10 years and the comment was made "I bet that tree looked a lot different then".
Remembering back, I looked around our street and saw some trees dying. Our home was four years old and it appeared some trees made it and some didn't. I made the decision to prune the dead limbs to at least improve the look of the tree.
See for yourself the change in 10 years...the little tree that could! (I think I see an American Goldfinch in the before picture)
In the theme of being here 10 years and time to get things done, the porch has needed attention for a while. We knew we had to paint to at least protect it but it was also an opportunity to decide what color to change to (from the brown we have long hated). This is Cindy's area as a decorator and we looked at different colors and shades within color groups. We landed on gray being a good neutral and then landed on a shade of gray that we liked.
Cindy has many professional contacts and we hired one of her painters to do the job.
Before Pictures
During the Process
After Pictures
The peony is a common but impressive flowering plant. It has a short blooming season though...only 7 to 10 days. I saw these while out walking Kyanne. I caught them on a good day.
