Week 45

this is an '06 pix of our street- not too inviting. Mostly 40's little boxes. Our 100 year old house was the first on our 'street'. In fact it was not a street then- it was a cowpath. We have endangered salamanders in our yard. Probably from when the hillside was oak grassland. The house is detatched and is one of the only places where wildlife can come and go from the back yards. yard is 25' wide. We park in the front yard. This is grandfathered in the zoning code.
I heavily pruned yesterday in the rain in the front. I couldn't stand it anymore. I cut an irrigation spagetti line by mistake and had to repair it in the dark. Some of the blue hibiscus prunings made good floral arrangenents. I found that the Chopin Clematis has 4 blooms on it!