experiments in landscaping

Owning a home.
One great thing about it: you get to create your own yard. However you want it.
One of the biggest challenges: you have to create your own yard.
Even if you have no idea what you're doing.
With the help of my family, we cleared out the front yard last week. So this week we've been working on replacing it all.

And what a joy it is to know that we are surrounding our home with beautiful growing things and to imagine how amazing it will look when it's all done.

But what if the picture in my head of the completed project is different than the picture in Kent's head?
And what if the garden center across the street (that was previously so fun to visit) suddenly becomes horribly overwhelming?
And what if communication between spouses fails, miserably?
And what if the soil in Texas has so. many. rocks. that you actually bend your shovel?

Chalk it all up to a "learning experience."
And hey, we're getting there.
Learning a lot in the process. Not just about gardening, but about
loving and living and
working together.

By the way, it's going to look amazing when it's done.
Even if we're not sure yet exactly what "amazing" is going to look like.