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| Before the project began, plenty of old growth juniper and hardy English ivy in the landscaping. | Click on any photo to see an enlarged image. | Su and Shawn have done almost all the work. |
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| What we did on a sunny Memorial Day weekend... | Attacking the last of the ivy. | It initially took seven full trailer loads to haul away just the juniper, and three more to haul away the ivy this weekend! |
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| Su built the small retaining wall and filled in the slope behind for future flower bed use. | No more ivy up against the house! |
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| Su and Shawn laid stone steps up to the top of the yard and Su has begun planting ground cover and other plants. | The grass will come out soon to make room for more plantings and garden. | We will extend the stone wall all the way across later this summer |
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| The start of the dry creek bed. This arm actually has spring water running under the rocks. |
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| The old stairway up from the street was found during juniper removal, a new one will be built between the creek arms. | The other arm of the dry creek will run down this side of the yard. Got to do something to hide the heat pump! |
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| Su has begun the process of planting along the first creek. | Ferns, moss, sorrel, ducks foot, vine maple, just some of the plants along the creek bank. | These plants were dug from the forest (with permit!) and transplanted here. |
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| The second creek (which runs East). We collected the rocks for the second creek from the Creek House (Su's place). | Su dug out the creek bed and single handedly placed all the rocks! | Emi, Shawn and Rhett while collecting rocks from Mosby Creek to use for the second creek. |
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| July 9, 2009 - Su took the day and beagn the process of building the stairs from the street to the house on Tigertail Ridge. | We will finish the rest this weekend. |