Google Maps gave me a look back in time, last Spring, to our bare front yard.
Google doesn't really give you a timestamp, but in this shot you can see our porch swing is up, so it's after Spring Break when we fixed our roof...
There's some plants and bags of wood chips leaning against the front porch. The crumbling bricks outlining the flower bed in front of the porch are still there. You can't see the pathway, and there's nothing really planted in that expanse of front yard.
Here's a similar shot from April 2020.
The wildflowers are starting to dry up in this 100+ heat, but the idea of a pathway is there.
Another angle of the front yard in 2019.
From the North-West corner, you can catch a glimpse of Little Big Blue, still probably about 2' high. Behind her are the two rows of hollyhocks against the chain link fence (I planted those in late February 2019).
Here's April 2020 again...
There's not as much difference in the foreground, but the back fence is considerably greened up.
Here is a close up of the row of hollyhocks.
They've grown to about six or seven feet and have huge "double-pink" blossoms. After this bloom, they're going to die back, but some might survive a third year (hollyhocks are biannual).
Sometimes it's nice to see how much I've actually accomplished in one year!
Google doesn't really give you a timestamp, but in this shot you can see our porch swing is up, so it's after Spring Break when we fixed our roof...
There's some plants and bags of wood chips leaning against the front porch. The crumbling bricks outlining the flower bed in front of the porch are still there. You can't see the pathway, and there's nothing really planted in that expanse of front yard.
Here's a similar shot from April 2020.
The wildflowers are starting to dry up in this 100+ heat, but the idea of a pathway is there.
Another angle of the front yard in 2019.
From the North-West corner, you can catch a glimpse of Little Big Blue, still probably about 2' high. Behind her are the two rows of hollyhocks against the chain link fence (I planted those in late February 2019).
Here's April 2020 again...
There's not as much difference in the foreground, but the back fence is considerably greened up.
Here is a close up of the row of hollyhocks.
They've grown to about six or seven feet and have huge "double-pink" blossoms. After this bloom, they're going to die back, but some might survive a third year (hollyhocks are biannual).
Sometimes it's nice to see how much I've actually accomplished in one year!
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