Starting close to the house and going clockwise around the yard: the two beds
Jenny's reclaimed from lawn area and bordered with cobblestones left over
from an old pathway.  The bed in the foreground contains a rhubarb plant,
melons (just out of sight) and several tomatoes.  We're tucking veggies in
between as many other plants as possible.  We plan on doing a lot of
canning later in the summer.

Just off the deck, we've decided to go retro/environmental and dry our clothes
outside.  Granted, I grew up doing this, so it's nothing new.  They say running
the clothes dryer is the largest single chunk of your electric bill, so we're hoping
to make a dent in ours.  Rather than cementing the holding sheath into the
ground, Jenny came up with the idea of turning an extra planting barrel upside
down and drilling a hole in it to form a sturdy base for the unit.  It works great.
To the right of the clothesline you can see the fading glory of what had been
a spectacular azalea display; to the right are the hoops of the raised beds.

The raised beds I put in last year now contain green beans, peas, strawberries,
Swiss chard, celery, lettuce and herbs.  The pot at right holds cucumbers.  The
walnut tree at upper right is just beginning to leaf out above the iris bed.

Another view of the raised beds.  The foreground barrels hold tomatoes (lots and
lots of tomatoes, because Jenny started 28 plants by accident) and squash.  A
semi-dwarf pear is at left.

Against the fence by the raised beds, brussels sprouts grow around the base of
the semi-dwarf peach tree we put in this spring.  We are probably going to
espalier the peach.