Hello all! I have missed you, and if only I had a camera, I might have something add to this thread.
I've moved to my new apt, and it's incredible. I have a patio and it opens up onto a manmade creek/stream complete with pond and weeping willow growing out of the bank! There's a family of mallards that paddle around! There's an amazing tree (over in the common area) with these large almost peony-looking flowers growing all over it, and a large bush outside my front door growing very large red blooms - they are frilly and sort of fluted. Down the way, there is another bush that grows what looks like irises.
I love this place. When it rained, the creek got all bubbly. And I loved the rain dripping off all the greenery. If I can't write here, I think I should stop. It's very... I don't know. Magical.
I have to get a camera.
Here are some of the pictures from the apts website. I think these are from the opposite end of the creek - not on my side at all. That might be a willow, but it's not my willow. Mine is a little larger, sits on a bit of a bank and it actually leans out over the water more.
just a shot of another walkway - nowhere near my apartment, but you can see the trees and such