now and then: bocce court

APRIL 2009

MARCH 2007

Of course, there was no bocce court “then” — in ’07 when I took the before shots. And I’m cheating a little here, standing all the way back in the vegetable garden and including the elm trunk. In my defense, it’s no longer possible to stand where I was standing when I snapped the before, plus this way you get to see the beautiful rock bed Bob made under the elm — one of the first steps we took. In the before shot, you can see the random “wall” that was the source of the stones. I’ve probably mentioned before that, when we first set foot in this backyard, Bob waved his arm at the west side of it, where there was the giant tangle of crap seen above, and said “bocce court.” To which I responded something like “errrr, oh-kay.” Seemed like a pretty gargantuan thing to plan a garden around, but I’m glad we ran with it.

Comments

[dgstrong]

I love that it looks like Boo Radley lives next door.

[Karen Templer]

Yes, you can be sure we love that too. But hey, you can see less of it now than you used to!

[millie]

Beautiful, Karen. I can see images in a magazine of one of your backyard fetes with all of you playing--with a cocktail in hard.

[Karen Templer]

Thanks, Millie.

[Emily]

I've never taken to gardening the way so many of my friends have, but i confess that every time I look at before and after shots of your yard I think, "oh, maybe." So, so pretty.

[Karen Templer]

I think you'd love it, Em. Making a garden is a big fun messy art project.