the remaking of a kitchen

we just celebrated our 50th anniversary.....amazing!   we went out to dinner and it was all lovely.  a great meal and a waitress we've had previously who is great, so all good.  our gift to ourselves was new landscaping in our front yard.  when we moved in, the landscaping was two or three railroad ties high creating what i saw as a fort.  inside were numerous arborvitae shrubs and some potentilla that were overgrown.  lots of river rock which did not keep out the weeds.  over time, the potentilla died and don dragged away a couple of layers of ties and removed some of the arborvitae...hurrah for don.  however, there remained numerous arborvitae which don had trimmed to attractive shapes, but the whole thing still extended a good 20 feet into the front yard!  so, it is now 8 feet at the deepest, and since we changed the porch last year, the plants run along in front of the porch, but only 2 feet out from the porch itself.  i love the whole thing!!  yay!
we went shopping for plants and tree numerous times, we even agreed on some things.  we have various colors of leaves.....greens, yellows and dark red, plus blooms in orange, pink - white - yellow and yellow.  most everything is small for now, but hopefully we have placed it so that growth won't run it into the house or the other plants.  it was quite an adventure and at this point we both like it a lot.  there are some areas that need a few more plants, but that will happen either later this fall or next spring.