A meme.
Karine tagged me to find the sixth photo in my sixth folder and share a bit about it. (Looks like we're both showing off the area where we used to live...)
Karine tagged me to find the sixth photo in my sixth folder and share a bit about it. (Looks like we're both showing off the area where we used to live...)
This is our former backyard in Silverton, Oregon. Very green, very lush. See the corner of the potting shed? Mark built it after salvaging the boards from an old building on his sister's property. I found old, square paned windows to use to let in light.
The second photo shows the water feature Mark built and the brick patio we both worked on (after our nephew and I hauled home a half ton of used brick from the local convent that was torn down....my back was sore for days....)Living in the desert, as we do now, is quite a change.
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32 comments:
What a beautiful hideaway - I love all the gray toned foliage mixed with the green, aged bricks and the water feature - awesome! An oasis! You managed to make the water feature look very natural, how it curves into the patio.
They look like photos from a landscaping article....gorgeous!
Funny how we can leave beauty behind and move on to beauty beyond. I'm with ya on the sore back, finally finished after tearing my daughter's store inside out...argh...
The poem below is wonderful, was up till midnight last night playing with mine, funny how a little snow can lead to wistful thoughts.
Please stop sending it East...ha!
Gorgeous!! makes me wanna run barefoot thru the grass :)
How I long for spring........
Very pretty. And yes, vastly different to your current location. These are funny tags. I was tagged to post the 4th photo from my 4th folder. I think that was it. I'd better check before playing along. Not that anyone would know the difference if I goofed anyway :)
Oh, yes... When you arrive to partake of my turkey chili simmering on the stove, I would ask you to do something like this in my yard.
I do not possess a Green Thumb.
Beautiful shots...
Kate
These pix from your former place are gorgeous! I love that you used the weathered wood for the shed and old bricks for the patio. Wow!
What beautiful garden! I can imagine what a change the desert climate must have been! I bet it has it's own kind of magic though... I'm sitting here looking at the snow while flipping through plant catalogs and dreaming of spring!
It is beautiful there! I love lush and green. It just looks like the perfect spot to take a book and nice cool drink and spend a few hours, (or all day!) relaxing.
That is a gorgeous backyard. Love it! I wish I had your design skills. Do you ever get around to Maryland? :)
Oh my god wow!
It looks like something you see in those special effects high budget martial arts films where the actors are walking on water and such!
just gorgeous charmaine!!! i want to come and sit with you and sip a lemonade!
and thank you thank you thank you(!) for mentioning the giveaway--you are such a doll!
Love your photos and thanks for the giveaway alert! I love her jewelry.
Good Lord what a beautiful garden!
Now I have the gardening itch and there is still a foot and a half of snow on the ground!
What a dream yard, Charmaine! Now you have a more wild yard dream, right? Every place has its own beauty. I had the hardest time letting go of California and embracing Puerto Rico. That yard must have been part of your creative expression at the time...it is lovely.
Oh I love all the green! I kill everything and what I don't kill the sun fries...desert landscaping is an undertaking-I'm so with you on the new challenge!
So pretty both the amazing landscape you & Mark created as well as the necklace Bonbon is giving away!
I do recall you having another similar rock hauling experience in this home not too long ago!
Wow! Your old place is gorgeous, love all the greeness!!
Your yard is one to be envied!!
Seems that everything you do, whether indoors or out, comes out so beautifully. What a lovely yard you had, and great photos of it!
The necklace is gorgeous - thanks for sharing.
Peace, Judi
So lush and green, looks like a perfect place to kick back and relax. I can only imagine what a change the desert must be, but I think you are very fortunate to get to experience such diversity!
Gosh your old gardens and patio are beautiful! You did a lot of work!! I bet that was hard to leave behind...even tho your new place is just as lovely in a different way.
Amazing escape! No doubt your new place is just as beautiful.
I love you more now that I've seen your beautiful garden! It's right out of my dreams :) Thanks for the heads up about the "bon bons", too! Jen
Sigh...I love your blog. I could get lost here.
How interesting that both of us had photos from previous "home"! Thanks for joining the fun.
Yes, I think Salida looks a lot like some of the photos you've posted of your high desert. It is high desert there, too. I have found JT to be much, much drier.
I love your former garden. living in the desert may have been a big change
It must've been difficult to leave the garden behind.
What a gorgeous yard!
how i'd love to spend my days in that lush greenery. beautiful!
That patio is gorgeous!
i love seeing the old garden!! what a wonderful creation! it is so inviting! i bet you miss that.
xo i would
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