Block & Dirt Project

Two years ago I decided our front yard needed "something" so I went out with my chalk & string & made a circle. It seemed like it would be a simple project. By the time I finished enlarging the circle & adding a smaller inner circle---wellllll, as the way of most things I do, the visual is different from what I had in mind! Here's what it looks like today
In the 2 years that this has been completed it has undergone several changes. A wonderful dance friend gave me lots & lots of day lilies from her yard which I planted along the inside of the larger circle. The first year, they were beautiful!! This year they were taking over so out they came & FOUR barrels full went to my next door neighbor. During THIS project I managed to get my first bee sting---but that's another story. I'm still wanting to put some kind of a path out to The Circle, but that's for another time.
So why is this called the Block & Dirt Project? My husband teaches Algebra & Geometry & gave his students the assignment to figure out how much weight he & I hauled in doing this project. I'll get the figures from him & post those in the next post.
My friend in Los Angeles, Lisa, says her husband can't understand how I can possibly let that poor "lawn" look the way it does. We live in California about 100 miles south of the Oregon border & have high triple digit temps for several weeks in the summer so it's either the pool or the "lawn" that gets the water!
Tomorrow I'm going to post pictures of the specific parts of The Circle, as I call it, because I know the cold weather is soon going to take many of those plants to bed for the winter.