Here’s the new view of the house from the mailbox.
This picture was taken from very near the same vantage point, in May of 2005.
With the two pine trees and the oak tree from the center of the driveway gone, the house can now be seen from the road. Sure looks odd without those trees…
I know someone is going to ask, “Why did you have those trees removed?” The pine tree by the front porch was about 60 years old (we have a 1954 picture that shows that tree about three feet tall) and, every time we had a big wind storm, it dropped branches. The other pine tree must have been a few years younger. It was not as big and didn’t drop branches as badly as the larger one did.
But we also wanted to open up the middle of the driveway so the flowerbeds will receive more sunlight. We need space for more daylilies. 🙂 The center of the drive way needs about a foot of top soil dropped on it. Every time there’s a heavy rain, we get a pond in there. It sits lower than the driveway does. See?
So, like everything else around an old house, one project leads to another. 🙂
~~Rhonda
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Wow!!! It’s like de-cluttering the view !!!
It looks like you moved !!!
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