"Reflections On Married Life..."

Our humble home... August 2013

I've shared before that my husband is a professional gardener, so together we take great pride in maintaining our home and gardens.  This is a view of our home from the street. (the brown patch in the lawn is due to grubs snacking on the roots).

This is my rock garden across the front of our home. I installed this as a tribute to my mother the year she died.  She loved flowers and would always tell me,

 "Be sure they know a 'Flournoy' lives there..."

The view looking down the backyard from the rear of the house.

Close up of one of the terracotta pots in the gravel garden.  The tall green plant is papyrus, some people call it the "fireworks plant" because of the streaming tendrils at the top. 

These arborvitae screen the view to the alley. These were the first thing Eddie planted when he started improving the backyard.  The Limelight hydrangeas in the corners are in full bloom right now and later the blooms will change color to a glowing lime green color.  

This is a view of the first gravel garden we put in a couple of years ago.  I'm sure our neighbors think us quite pretentious having an illuminated oil painting on the wall of our garage.

This is the second gravel garden on the other side of the yard outside our Florida room.  Eddie and I put this in last year after we found these chairs and table to match the bench

we bought a couple of years ago.

I'll have to post a nighttime view of this area, it's very attractive when the lighting from the painting and the illuminated decorative pyramid seen at the right casts 

just the right amount of light on the area.

Eddie and I like to sit here in the mornings and during the day.  

On the roof terrace above this area we have a container garden where in the evenings we like to sit and watch the sun go down over the neighbor's houses behind ours.

These are the summer flowers in the rock garden, soon we'll add the fall mums and violas.  Then later, just before winter arrives we'll plant next spring's bulbs that together with the violas (that should survive the winter) will start our three seasons of color all over again.

Home is an important part of married life for Eddie and me.  It's the place where we can be free to enjoy life and being together.  It's the part of life I always dreamed about, but thought would never really come true.

For us, it's better when you're married...

"Fear Eats the Soul"