Garden Therapy

This is what it looks like now.

This is what it looked like last September.

I spent last Labor Day weekend digging out the old ground cover and weeds that surrounded the back corner of my backyard. Two weeks after burying Tosca, I felt the need to do something physical where I didn't need to think. I just needed to dig; an outlet for my grief. After three 8-hour days bent over on my hands and knees, I finally looked around and had two thoughts:

1. I'm so sore I can hardly stand up straight.

2. What am I going to do with this bare corner now??

This spring I came back to the task. Spending every spare minute in the back corner of the yard, I dug up more of the grass, 

and connected this new section with the previous garden,

pulled weeds (and then pulled the new weeds), 

added a brick border,

and two yards of soil,

finishing off with $100 worth of new perennials and a beautiful mulch.

I love it!

And I think of it as Tosca's Garden.