Now and Then.......Backyard

     I asked my husband before if he had a photo of our house before we met and got married. He told me that he hid the photos somewhere in our house but he could not remember where. Just as this moment I browsed all our photo files on the computer and I found many photos way back when my husband acquired our house and live here for maybe a little bit over five years. The first one I wanted to share was a photo of our backyard.

(This was our backyard before I got married and moved here)

     It was a nice backyard. I recognized a few plants my husband had that we still have right now. The structure you've seen behind the fountain is our recreation room and sometimes we called it studio room because my husband uses it  to shoot products for his outside clients. The stair in the left side is going to our rooftop. We don't use our rooftop that much. Sometimes we went there to watch the planes (because we live close to the international airport) or if not just to relax.

(This is our backyard now)

     As you can see we made a lot of changes in our backyard. We put the fountain at the midst of our garden and hired somebody to put a flagstones around it. We also bought a gazebo and place it where we entered in our garden. The white bench (shown in the old photo above) was being moved in to the right side of our garden (not shown on the new photo). The big bush in front of our recreation room was taken out because it's getting bigger and it almost covered up our entire room. Our grass was new because the old ones was being flowed and ruined by Bones (our dog). He used to play in our backyard. Running around so fast especially when he got excited. We also changed the color of our house from off-white and white to midday sun but we haven't changed the color of the stair that's going to our rooftop, garage door and windows and doors trim.

     Although you have seen Bones laying down on our grass (in the new photo) but we allowed him only once in a while and we made sure that we were watching him so that he will not damaged and ruined our grass again.
      It requires a lot of time, effort and money to have a nice looking backyard. I am very lucky that my husband too loves gardening and he usually is the one who's taking care of it. I helped him often but he exerted more effort than I do.