Beautiful Landscaping

On Friday afternoon, Brian decided that he would pull up a lot of our shrubs because, well, he "just didn't like them anymore." Now, for me, that is not a good reason. We had perfectly good shrubs, but Brian is a perfectionist when it comes to our yard. This process started on Friday, continued all day on Saturday and Sunday, and is about half way done. I wish I had taken "before" pictures, but here is what we have done so far. Pay close attention to the two evergreen trees that are on either side of the big window. They used to be one full tree. Brian cut them to look like that. The trees (which had been there) cost us about $30 a piece a few years ago and he made the trees into what would cost us about $300 now. Pretty cool, huh? And yes, I will hire him out!!

If you look look at the first picture (of Brian), you will notice there is a tulip tree, several azalias, and some pansies. Yes, all of that was dug up and you can see in the next picture, we planted a flat blue spruce and some zinnias.