Mind Your Step

MOTH worked most of the weekend at a client's house, so nothing much happened around The Hedge. However, he did come home on Saturday night muttering about the project he's doing down on our small meadow. The retaining wall is coming along OK, but will get an even bigger nudge after he has a facet joint injection into his dogdy left shoulder today. A combo. of his days abalone diving, an 'incident' with a ladder at work & old age he says has caused his shoulder to stop moving in any direction! Anyway, he reckons it's time to think about the thing he hates constructing the most - steps. He did a flight of them for me in our old garden & never have I heard such moaning, groaning & colourful language. So I thought I'd better do some research & show him pics of what I'd like - & then run a million miles an hour in the opposite direction as he protests at top note!

Love Paige Shaw's interpretation in the first image & how about these beauties from Westover.

I have a feeling that these curvilicious ones from Alice Cooke may just tip him over the edge!

This flight from Veranda are almost exactly right for the spot in our garden.

But then again, I do like the long step in these from Katherine Field.

I feel another busted leg coming on with these challenging ones from Secret Gardens!

More rustic beauty from Veranda.

A fabulous flight from The Greenwich Phantom.

And I love this image from La Gaurdia to bits as it's sort of like what our little meadow looks like except a smidgie bigger. Just like this pic, we have the laurel hedge bordering the space on two sides & it's what the eye sees off in the distance from the driveway. Now off to pick up a groggy MOTH from the Radiologist's & 'surprise' him with my fab ideas!