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These are the pines I have talked about. This is my "pine forest tribute" to California and a place where I slept once. The place was so thick with pine needles it was like a a down bed. The smell and softness was magical. Unfortunately this spring three of the white pines behind that major one were hit especially hard by the ice storm and now it looks sparce like this. There is too much sun coming in now too many weeds are growing out of the pine floor. It is sad.

I have not decided whether I should take down the white pines , or at least the worst hit or not. I see by my feeding and watering plan that now there is some more fill in, so I guess I will give them a year. My main difficulty right now is I want to get up into all of them and do a little pruning and taking out the dead branches left from the storm, but I just can't get up 60 or more feet in the air to get to them!

The picture below is the beginning of the second hill garden. I can't call it a "rock garden" like the other side of the stone path. So, I call it the left hill! I made a couple impromptu terraces in which forget-me-nots and echanacia are happy, a few red sunflowers came up and in the back left there are my lovely iris that I never got a picture of this spring.

The metal go-cart is another piece of metal art to be developed and that circle there is wedged on top of a cool concrete tower I found in the field. Next too the orange daylillies are a huge bunch of black-eyed susans blooming now and some mums coming up to get ready for fall.

One thing I especially like this year about my yard is I have worked long enough on it that all season long something is blooming somewhere. Now I have to fill in at the bottom of this hill where the straw is. Always thinking I am "done" a week later I think about moving something or adding something else!

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