Mural Begone

There's a psychedelic mural (intricately-detailed parrot included) that graces most of the eastern side of our backyard. It's painted on the side of the neighbor's garage. We're not sure if the neighbor did it to torture us, or if the neighbor doesn't even know about it (since it faces into our yard) and the previous owners did it in a misguided attempt to brighten up the yard. Regardless, it's large, bright, and not exactly to our taste.

In addition, our backyard used to feature an overgrown garden, a boulder field, and a sketchy-looking wooden sandbox. Last month, Chris removed every last plant, weed, rock, and grain of sand in order to start over. This weekend, he got back to work and turned our little mural-burdened dry strip of dirt into a soon-to-be backyard oasis! We're hoping the bamboo lives up to its reputation and immediately takes over the entire wall of the garage (bye bye mural!). Now there's just one more patch of backyard to work on, plus the front yard, the front garden, and our Leaning Garage of Seattle. But that stuff can wait -- the important thing is that the mural is well on its way to being reduced to nothing more than flashes of color glimpsed between the stands of bamboo. Yay Chris!

The Jungle	The Desert	The Oasis
May 2005	April 2006	May 2006