Lots of changes this Spring: Part 6 - "Next Year's Projects'

These are embarrassing to post, but it is for the purpose of historical reference that I expose the ugliness that anxiously awaits my attention.  It has taken a divine amount of restraint to NOT tend to these areas.  This was me keeping a cold winter promise:

(which was…and I quote)
"I will only work on one part of the house at a time so that we are can enjoy a small taste of victory towards the transformation of Appleton. "

I've realized that I make quick promises under the heaps of snow and ice and tend to regret them once the earth thaws and my gloves get dirty.  However - these promises also help to moderate my enthusiasm and probably do me more good than I want to admit.  

2013-2014 has been focused mostly on the back of the house.  This is our view from inside, and what surrounds us during parties and alfresco dinners.  I did lean over a little onto one side of the house - but it is still within eye shot of the living room couch, so I still stuck within the boundaries.

South Side of house.  Afternoon shade

These pictures are NOT the type I find and drool over on other garden blogs.  So maybe I'm breaking the rules here, maybe I'm too exposed, maybe it's just too ugly.

South side and front of house

But this is where I am starting.  This is my canvas.  Everybody and everything start from somewhere.

Front of house Left side

These walls and green spaces will lie mostly untouched for one more year.

Front of house Right side

Amidst the sunrises and sunsets of  the falling leaves and the frost I will build into my imagination a
magnificent space that bears no resemblance to it's current nothingness.

North side and front of house

Mailbox area and strip between sidewalk and street

North side of house and backyard

And when the pollen starts to fill my lungs and sets everything into the Spring frenzy, these spaces will begin to stand, spread and scramble happily with purpose and beauty.  Then they will be the opposite of nothing.

Back of house - Boxwood Blvd

Back of home from North side.  Hedge growing in

• Finish removing all landscaping rock
• make walking path from driveway to sidewalk
• expand front beds to hug sidewalk
• Choose and plant specimen plants, evergreens and trees
• New shutters
• Paint front door
• Personlize porch - dresser, sitting spot and plants, iron structure on house
• Move Azaleas to find "happy place"
• Decide on an edging material
• Pick out lighting
• Hose guards
• Rain barrels
• Decide on soaker hose or 3rd hose & storage
• New wagon to carry heavy stuff
• Call city regarding easement
• Paint ugly pots Bronze
• Remove dead Evergreen