I have been so busy with my backyard landscaping project that I have not had time to blog.
After digging out the hole and putting in perforated pipe, next came six yards of egg rock (moved by hand in 97 degree heat!):
Then soil and more soil:
As you can see, it was only thanks to the careful supervision by Coco that this project was possible. (Little did she know that she would become a rock star!)
Once the soil was in place, it was time for the boulders, which had to come in by fork lift (like this two-ton monster which scraped the driveway on its way in):
Little by little, more were added:
Until it looked like this:
Finally came the smaller boulders and plants, which are still in progress. Here’s how it looks right now:
And another view:
I admit, I can’t stop looking at it and obsessing over it. Hard to believe it’s my yard.
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7 responses to “All work and no play makes Sysiphus a dull boy!”
“Alas! even today I recoil in fright at the enormous boulder I should have to move to clear my doorway.”
Francis Ponge, on writer’s block. Alluding as well to Mallarme’s tribute to Edgar Allan Poe’s strange voice, “a still block of stone fallen down here onto earth from out of an unknown disaster.”
It lacks only a meteor.
Wonderful! I can feel the Feng shwai from southern Cal.Reaaly nice
beautiful and tranquil. rock on.
i love the big boulders. i thought maybe you were going for a pond with the rocks and buried pipe, but i guess not.
Beautiful!
Thanks RH, Bob, Darleen!
Actually, there is a small plastic pond which is more visible in the first couple of pictures. It is filled with small rocks temporarily to prevent collapse during the work, so it doesn’t look like a pond yet.
Make sure and check out foggers for your pond, they use magnets to create a fog bank on top of the water, very cool