planted.

I am not awesome at growing things.

I planted a bunch of perennial flowers in these beds last year,

and this is how they looked about 3 months later -

 

The blubs peaking through here 

are seriously indestructible.

Even with the failure, I tried again.

Also, taking the tree out in the backyard

left a large area of non-lawn.

Instead of putting expensive sod in,

I wanted to see if seeding would work.

Let's see if the flowers and grass actually grow.

I'll let you know in about a month.

monkey see.

This monkey saw the professionals  

fix these trees

and decided to do the same thing 

to a smaller tree.

I forgot to take a before picture, 

but the "small" tree was still like 18 feet high.

Here's the how it turned out:

It was hard,

and tree debris scratched my eyeball.

Monkey saw.

Monkey did.

Monkey blind.