Here are a few pictures of the house on Prior Street where I live now.  I live about four blocks from Mt. Stephen Avenue.  This photo shows the first floor porch.

This is a shot looking up at the second and third floors.  My room it at the top of the house.

Dining Room at Prior Street showing some of the art work done by one of my house mates

I was home the other day for a spectacular rainbow.  
You can see in this photo how high up my room is.  
I look down on the treetops.

Tore out the small lawn and most of the vegetation in the garden borders.  Replaced the lawn with two layers of landscape cloth and 3 yards of river stone in various sizes.
And, there are 172 bulbs in the border and it has all been mulched for the winter.

There's an area we call the desert because it is high and has thin soil and bakes in the sun from dawn to dusk in the summer.  Everything you see in the photo is drought resistant and hardy enough to have survived through two summers of neglect and the desert looks better than ever.

While Lynn is living in Ontario I'm doing property management for her.  I re-did the landscaping in the front this year. 
 I hired Powell through a local labour pool in the summer.  
He did all of the heavy work.

I pulled almost everything else out of the beds but these hardy perennial snapdragons that have been there for the last ten years.  I figured they had earned the right to stay and anchor the new plantings.