Our New House as it was in 2007

Our new house in 2007

Several years have gone by since the house fire. This is how our new house looked after it's completion in 07. I have done much planting since then and as I look back at the house when it was fresh and new, I sometimes wonder if I could only bulldoze away all of the growth around it and start fresh. I guess it comes with age, but now it seems I like it in a more simple state. Maybe not quite this simple, but much less smothered in flowers and vines than it has evolved to today.