What a Guy!

Evan and I have been married 18 years today! Where have the years gone? Truly, it only seems like yesterday, not twenty years since we fell in love.

He has been secretly planning ways to make our back yard a more inviting retreat. Well, that part wasn't secret but the anniversary gift was. Above is a beautiful River Birch tree that he planted for me recently near a back corner. He's mad about trees and we joke that it's a "sickness" because he keeps bringing them home and we are running out of spaces to plant them, LOL. If not for the drain field down the middle of the yard, we could plant a tiny forest. That would be lovely as the summer heat from the afternoon sun on the west side of the house can only be described as hellish broiling.

However, the Birch was not the surprise gift but this beautiful hammock.

And a bouquet of gorgeous, Gerbera Daisies!

Can you see the tree swing in the background? That was my husband's Christmas gift to me and I've rediscovered the joys of swinging and gazing up at the sky through the beautiful, leafy canopy.

He planted wild flower seeds all around the hammock area and back fence line too! (They are just visible in the background of this picture. Not blooming yet of course).

Sigh.....what a man! I count it my life's joy to be married to him. =D