New Front Yard

Forest Landscape Services out of Cornelius landed on my front lawn Thursday morning bright and early with a crew that ranged from 2-to about 6 at one point to completely deconstruct my front lawn and reconstruct it. I don't have a very good before picture because I hated our front yard and therefore only took pictures in the dark and/or snow of it, like here:

The major offenses:  weeds, lots of them; moss covering not lawn anymore but some sort of noxious weed.  We had a crumbly, splintery deck to the left of the chimney for the first 15 years we owned the house.  Early on, David would set up his hammock there and gaze at the sky until he realized that it was absolutely unsafe.  Finally, we ripped it out last Fall when we had a new fence built between our house and the neighbor to the north.

But now, after the professional team had its way with our front yard, I can take a picture of it in its entirety:

The front yard complements our house and even makes it look much bigger than its actual teeny footprint. There is a curvy brick path to the back gate so that David can easily wheel our garbage/recycling/compost to the street every Wednesday evening, and then back again Thursday afternoon.  There's real grass - a broad leafed grass that does not need as frequent watering as the other varieties.  We left all the upstart ferns in the landscape, which I thought I did not like and wanted gone in this re-boot of our landscape, but which look really nice next to everything else now.  (I hate to say that David was right about the ferns, but....)  

 It's really nice to come home to.....