Road Confusion
Some of my daylilies. The herb garden is visible to the left back and you can see the corner of the meditation garden in the upper right.
We call this area the "croquet field". Almost all the shrubs you see in all the pictures are lilacs.
There seems to be some confusion about the road leading to my home. Micki over at Holy Cards for you Inspiration (a must visit site) thinks it's bleek and is wondering where all my trees are located. Uncle Jim thinks it's a driveway, and Adoro thinks a government agency should do the maintenance.
So in the interest of clarification here is a link to the aerial view of our house and our road. You can pan east, west, north, or south by using the little indicator in the upper left hand corner (for anyone who has been living under a rock and has never used MapQuest.) The star is actually on Father Bill's property. The first house is Father Bill, the second (with all the green stuff called trees and bushes) is ours. Uncle Jim, please note our circular driveway. The third is "those who rip up road and pay nothing for maintenance." The fourth is Roger, who keeps us clear of snow. In the picture I posted a few days ago you are looking down the road from in front of Father Bill's barn.
The road you can see to the west of Father Bill running north and south, is a road that belongs to the county. They refuse to do maintenance and so it has deteriorated into a goat trail. Many of the Orthodox use it as a short-cut to church. The property west of that road is the Orthodox Church. Take note of the sidewalk in the form of a cross in their cemetery. They are presently adding on to their church and building a small school.
Our property starts on the west about where the tree line is located and extends east to almost the driveway of "those who rip up road." The back of the property ends where you see the houses behind us. The frontage of each property is about 325 feet so you can see there is a lot of road to maintain. The little line you see making a circle through our property is a trail I keep cut in the grass fields for Father Bill to walk his dogs and is called "Dog Trail." I decided walking his dogs to the end of the road and back was probably not much fun. This way he can make a big circle (and get more exercise.)
The area where Dog Trail starts (by the road) traveling north is actually a shallow gully. That entire area is a wild flower and grass garden and is quite lovely and peaceful. The rectangle is the meditation garden and the circle is the herb garden. The cutting garden and veggie garden are located right behind the "back yard." The daylily beds are all across the back, in the large area to the east of the house, and next to herb garden.
View from our deck - part of what we call our "back yard"
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