A Few Pictures From Outside

The backyard of our new home...

1) A lemon tree! We were practically giddy when we realized that we have our very own lemon tree. The current belief is that they are meyer lemons.

2) Steps up to the gully and then a bit step over - more steps up lead to what looks like a former garden area. This side of the yard is super shady thanks to the cluster of trees.

3) A great view of the gully. It sounds like this was installed more than 20 years ago. It runs the entire width of our property (and continues through at least 3 other properties).

4) The deck is Trex (yippy! no maintenance! right?). And a beautiful trellis with (I think) jasmine growing like mad over it. There are so many plants on the property - we're going to need to spend some real time figuring it all out.  The patio furniture belongs to the former owners - we haven't put anything out there yet.

 5) The sliding glass doors lead into the sitting room.  The fountain hanging on the wall was one of the few things that previous owners insisted on being able to take with them - we were totally ok with that. We love the flagstone patio.

6) The view to the upper right side of the lot.  It looks like there's another (abandoned) garden area on this side of the yard, too. We have a gate on the far side of the tree that leads out to the open space. There's a serious assortment of woodland creatures out there - we've seen deer, squirrel, turkey, and lots of quail.

7) We've seen evidence of a built-in sprinkler system, but we've not investigated it fully yet.

8) The view from the master bedroom. Seriously. We wake up and see this every morning.

We really couldn't be more excited about the new place.

In other news, Jeff called the movers today (it's been a week since they packed up the old place). They plan to load it on a truck today. This means it will be at least a week before it arrives here from New York.  Stay tuned!