stairs finis!
I don't like starting off with an ugly photo, so I won't. Just now, from my morning walk around. I've got plenty of areas that look like crap, but the morning sun on the slope here gave me a jolt of autumn joy! We've got another week of mid to high 70's in the forecast. I'm moving things around in case of a harsh el nino winter. I'm overreacting as per usual. In my defense, here are a few photos from 2017, that year we received a whopping 25" of rain! In comparison we received 12" this past year, 81% of normal 15". This is the very far back corner of the garden, to the left the "slope" and I'm facing the fence that divides our garden and the fire lane. To be fair, this was grass then and the first area that would get soggy. Still this was SHOCKING. Afterall, 25" in a year is not THAT much. We had moved from Portland, OR where the average rainfall is 36-43" per year. Miami, FL gets 67". The ground could...
