The Wall

The masons came at 8:00 Wednesday morning and began taking down the last two panels of cedar fencing separating our yard from the Sanchez construction to the east.  Now we have a 6-foot cinderblock wall in place and can begin thinking about the garden bed adjacent to that space.

We left the one wooden post in case we find a use for it like a support for hanging plants or a bird feeder.  To the north, I'll be assembling some kind of bonsai display area centered on the existing flagstones.  

Here's one early attempt at getting the most prominent bonsai into place.  

We'll have to wait and see what develops as the season progresses.  For now my first tasks are trimming the winter damage out of the big juniper and the variegated dwarf Deodar cedar.  Here they are covered in last December's snow.