Wow, you still have a lot going on. I like your giraffe sculpture! What is that bush with the red flowers in the last pic? I love how the reds really pop. I've got cypress vine that volunteers every year from seed and it has really become one of my favorites....really deep, true red w/ elegant dark green fern-like foliage. Spruces up the ol' chainlink fence quite a bit.
Love, love, love it all!! You must introduce us to your lovely "scarecrow"! Is one of those cardinal flower? Just beautiful, a real cheer up- for those of us looking at frost bitten plants....
i wish I had the words to describe how the mist is over the lake, like an upside down bowl over it, so that, between the lake and my garden it clears as a diffuse and a discrete bordering, from here the sun still below the horizon past it...