Thursday, April 20, 2006

New Patio Landscaping

We are trying to create a cozy private garden. Or as private as you can get when your neighbor's house is 10 feet away.

Friday, April 14, 2006

Various Flowers




These are some of our flowers. The upper left is the Carolina Jessamine, upper right is heather and johnny jump-ups, lower left is phlox and lower right is yellow dwarf wallflower, on the cemetery wall.

Goddard Ave

Looking East down the street

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Our House In The Summer

This is what our house looks like in the summer.....

Crepe Myrtle

This is our gigantic Crepe Myrtle. It blooms late but lasts all summer.

Surprise Lillies

I just think they are beautiful. Last year I cut a few and put them in a vase.

Disturbing Photo

I love this picture. The concertina wire and the angel give it a very disturbing effect. The cemetery is Catholic and it has some of the most beautiful sculpture I have ever seen.

The House Before










This is what the house looked like when we bought it. It was gray.






















Random Louisville architecture

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Happy Baby

Christopher Michael, AKA "Happy Baby".

Proof I Have A Grandson

Here is a picture of me playing with Christopher Michael.

Downtown Louisville

Downtown, as seen from the Steamboat Belle of Louisville.

Tyler Park

Fall in Tyler Park is quite nice.

Gnadinger Park

The smallest park in Louisville. There is a little plaza with a bench behind the sign, but basically, this is the whole thing.

Tyler Park

Our neighborhood is named after this park. Olmsted died before it was designed, but his son worked on it and built it to complement the other parks that his father built in Louisville.

Whiskey

Truth in advertising. They sell whiskey. And liquors. One of the last Germantown old-school liquor stores.

St. Therese

The Church of St Therese, seen from the bridge over Beargrass Creek.

Beargrass Creek

The sadly ignored Beargrass Creek, just two blocks from our house. They say it is too polluted to be saved, but I think it would be worth the effort to try.

The View From The Roof

If we ever finish the second story, this will be the view. You can see downtown just over the trees.

The Dining Room

We don't use it much, but it is nice when we have company for dinner.

The Formal Living Room

When you sit on the couch, this is what you see.

Surprise Lillies

David hates the Surprise Lillies, even though they are beautiful. In the spring they show up as big succulents, then they die, then in the fall...Surprise!...they bloom as beautiful lillies. Sadly, the spring succulents can destroy lawns, and concrete, and paving and all sorts of landscaping as they push their way out of the soil. But I forgive them because they are so lovely.

The Cemetery

We have a very nice view of the cemetery over the back fence.

The Front Porch

This is the front porch, which for most of the year is our real living room.

Our House Again

This is the backyard of the house. David made the deck and the patio by himself, with no help from me because I do not like to lift things or get dirty. But I like to sit at the table and enjoy what he made.

Our House

This is our house in Louisville, Kentucky. We live in the Tyler Park neighborhood, which is part of the Highlands area of Louisville. The house used to be all gray. Gray bricks, gray trim, gray steps, gray everything. We painted it in happier colors.