Thank you, Tee.
Very little grass is left. I have kept a strip through the yard, and across the top by the house and across the bottom at the sidewalk. But I just hate the kind of grass that grows well here. I want the good old Northern soft-to-the-feet, roll around in it kind of grass that just isn't practical in this area. This photo is from 2012 and there have been other changes--including the fact that NOTHING about the mulch and white rock borders looks so neat and pretty now.
This one is from January this year
New memorial bed
