Cindy: Back Yard ‘Happy Place’

My book lay facedown and forgotten as the sun lulled me into a summer stupor. I’d come to our backyard gazebo to read and recharge my batteries after a grueling day. But the concentration needed to focus on printed words proved too much. Instead, I listened to the chirping of a chickadee and the buzzing of a fat bumblebee. I watched them dart among the daisies near our deck. A pair of butterflies flitted past the raspberry bushes before alighting atop a gorgeous golden zucchini blossom in the vegetable garden. Once I was the queen of outdoor avoidance, preferring the shadowy coolness and the carefully climate-controlled indoors in the summer, but my hardworking husband has created a backyard oasis and it’s now my happy place/ Cindy Hval , SR Front Porch. More here.

Question: What do you think of your yard?