Well, it took me a couple days, but I got the pictures.

Take a look at the two pictures that I have from last year. We took these pictures when we were looking at the house, before we bought it. So the quality is no so hot and the shadows are aweful. However take a look at the front walk way. It looks a lot different now and if we can get the fower bed of death to play nice it will be really inviting.

So that was Summer 2008, and here it is now Spring 2009

With a closer look at that difficult flower bed:

Now we'll just walk right through the house and look out the back door.
Summer 2008:

And Spring 2009

It was a lot of work getting all the trees and brush out of that fence line. You can easily see the difference in these two pictures if you look closely 2008 you could barely see the neighbors and the street, now in 2009 it's quite obvious. The plan is to plant bamboo all the way around the yard to creat some privacy. We have also looked at a shrub or hedge idea. Hopefully it will all work it's self out, and look pretty.

So you can see the basic foundation of the changes that I've made. It will be interesting to see how it looks at the end of the summer if the grass will take off and grow.