A year later (11 months, anyway) the construction next door was complete. Their bulkhead and fence can be seen in the background here. The drought of 2011 had been broken and the grass responded nicely. I wonder why we have to water our lawns in the 'burbs (other than fear of getting nasty-grams from the HOA nazis)?
Firemaster Brian was shut down in June of 2011 by the local gendarmes for having a fire during a county-wide burn ban. The tree cutting stopped and he fled to a neighboring state (said he was going to grad school, but I think he believed he couldn't be extradited from LA). Anyway, we took the opportunity to resume burning some of the debris that remained from his last clearing efforts. That fence looks nice.
The neighbors house (and a glimpse of the one across the street from them).
These little flowers showed up throughout the property...mostly around the bases of trees where we don't mow. When we get down there for good, I'll try to collect some and plant them together for a splash of color.
This picture was added to show several things. 1) it's a pretty good shot of what the east side of the back yard will look like, 2) it shows how the leaning oak (bee tree) was continuing it's slow motion fall, and 3) the other tree with a severe lean (back right over the neighbors' fence) which has since been cut down. The bee tree will be gone when we start house construction. Is that Denise in the shade over there? ...no, it's not.
After this, we endured a crisis of confidence and decided to market the property. If it sold by the end of the year, we'd take it as a sign that it just wasn't meant to be.
I took the following pictures in lower resolution for the realtor.
Here's a couple that capture the upstream and downstream bayou views (close to what we would see from a boathouse).
A close up of the grassy bank with the neighbor's house in the background...
...and from the front corner of the yard by the street...
...and across the front yard by the soon-to-be driveway.
And I included this shot with a repeat from one of my first posts...Thank you, Brian.
contrast and compare...
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