The Avant Garden

I rebuilt 'em Sunday:

And here is a pic, for good measure:

The Creek is low enough to play in, the River not quite yet.

On Saturday, I mowed the lawn and got the Avant Garden Proper all spiffed up:

That yucca plant in the foreground washed ashore in the Avant Garden in the Flood of 2004. This is the first year it will bloom.

I have been trying to find some way to relay just how beautiful the Meditation Garden is right now. The ferns are all full and growing like crazy because of the rain:

and I almost never put pics of the HealthStack in the blog, but this thing has been standing for about two years:    

Originally, the plan was to build a stack that I called "HealthStack" and then when a friend became ill, I would build them a small totem near it and hope the healing vibes would help, or at least remind me to say a few words for my sick friends. But at my age, I know too many sick people and do not have enough rocks to build totems for all of them, so I just look at HealthStack and say a little prayer for the ill ones.

Go ahead and laugh, but it works better than your average Information Technologies Department does with healing computers. And I am not a condescending asshole, either.