the other side.....

ok, so....every year there comes the time when the last of the gardening chores require a trip to the other side.....the other side of the fence....the other side of the hedge...the other side of the deck.....and given the these design elements are in place as a shield to the precipice beyond......the untamed portion of our property lies just beyond....and it is only when the undergrowth gets in the way of my view or appears to be choking my plantings that i must arm myself with the heavy-duty shearers....by the time i get around to other side, the honeysuckle has become thicker than ones thumb, and small trees have sprung up in the middle of the American Pillar rose that spreads around the corner of my deck......and all nature of shrubs are peaking through my boxwood hedge............i had a little mishap this year, in that when i stepped between the boxwood and the stone terrace where Shailer's Pink Provence rose is in full bloom beside the base of the deck.....there was no there...there....only a tangle of vines, and i thudded backwards on the stone ledge.....which was better than careening forward and over into the abyss.......now that i have tied up all the wayward limbs, and trimmed back ivy from the brickwalks, and cut back the hedge behind the garage, i am due a hot bath followed by a nice little nap to recover from all of this hard work......yeah, i have big clay pots to fill with either annuals or tomatoes.....but they can wait.....