The Grass is Always Greener...

When we bought our house four months ago- the back yard looked like this:

Greg checking out what we're up against

 Today it looks like this:

Sunlight...finally

These are both taken from our patio (see the bush in the bottom left hand corner of both). Not exactly the same angle, but close.

It was quite an under-taking, but we're certain we saved a sweet penny by doing it ourselves. Tomorrow will start part one of our suburban backyard face-lift.