Our Yard in Fall

Darren takes great pride in our yard and has spent the last 4 years planning and planting and weeding and obsessing over the yard. We are proud to say that we had the only green grass in our neighborhood this summer during our extremely dry summer-- thanks to the sprinkler system we had installed last fall. For those of you thinking we were wasteful of a precious resource, NY doesn't suffer from drought--we have plenty of water here. It just didn't rain for about 6 weeks, and very few people here have sprinkler systems.


This is our new Autumn Blaze Maple tree. It was the reddest tree on the street. This was our first year to have leaves on the ground--granted there weren't many, but it was enough for Bea to feel the need to go out and rake leaves!



Darren and Noah mowed every 3-4 days. Noah even had a summer job mowing for our friends, Scott and April. He mowed their yard for $2 and time on their XBOX 360. He couldn't have been happier about his job.