Actually, this is garden number two. The rose garden is still doing well. But number two, with the sunflowers and wild stuff, is really in decline and won't be photographed again, unless I focus on the birds who still visit that garden.
I managed to get a few birds this time, too.
My wife enjoyed this garden a lot, since it is visible from her office and it borders the patio. It was my little plot of land, to do with as I pleased, and I wanted to make it semi-wild. It's never been the same from year to year.
It took hours of back-breaking work to dig out Bermuda grass to make this garden. If I want to increase its size by another 40% or so it'll take even more hours of hard labor. If I do that, I'll do it with hand tools again, the primitive way.
I'll finish this next time.
And then, next time, more sunflowers from our garden, and after that yet another commercial alley behind yet another old shopping "strip mall" I guess you would call it. The next alley will be one we visited even earlier in our relationship. At that time I think I was considering specializing in alleys. Well, alleys are interesting, but there's a lot more than that around here to photograph.
It's always nice to have a little door for the rats to run in and out.
A lot of this looked familiar.
It's always nice to have a place for the rain to come in.
It's always nice to have some wires around.
What I am showing here are the somewhat unsightly backsides of "mom & pop" style businesses.
And here is a small glimpse of the frontside of one of those businesses. That's a good place to finish this series.
Alleys are just flat out interesting places.
And this one is behind a rather old shopping "center". The area has seen better days.
I don't remember what kind of camera I used the first time we visited here. I got much better photos this time.
Colorful place.
And here is the mystery-- what's that all about?
This was here years ago, and it has not been removed-- this is the back entrance to a business in this little shopping "center". Someday I'll try, discretely, to determine which business and do some looking around. VERY discretely. I will finish this little photo series next time and go back to the sunflowers. They are not looking good at all right now. Wind and rain associated with a norther has knocked a lot of the taller ones down. I'll have some work to do Saturday!
I managed to get a few birds this time, too.
My wife enjoyed this garden a lot, since it is visible from her office and it borders the patio. It was my little plot of land, to do with as I pleased, and I wanted to make it semi-wild. It's never been the same from year to year.
It took hours of back-breaking work to dig out Bermuda grass to make this garden. If I want to increase its size by another 40% or so it'll take even more hours of hard labor. If I do that, I'll do it with hand tools again, the primitive way.
I'll finish this next time. 
