Per Caroline's request, here is a little collage of pictures of my back porch in it's different configurations. :) When I first moved into my house in October 1998, there was no hand railing and the little garden at the foot of the stairs consisted of a pink climbing rose bush. It only flowered once and it was spectacular, but then it never flowered again and it was constantly catching my clothes as I walked by so I ended up taking it out. Various and sundry plants and of course, Mary, have been in there since then. The hand rail was added in early 2000 when my mom came to live with me after my dad died. We had two fun years before she passed too.

So here are some pictures of the porch:

If you know Nicole from The Kitchen Table, she sent me morning glory seeds from her yard. Those suckers took off like a house afire! This is just when they started coming up. They ended up like Jack and the Beanstalk climbing up onto the roof!! Gorgeous flowers.

There is someone watching in this picture. Can you see it?

And then there are the animals who love the porch as much as I do. :)

You can see in many of the pictures how bad the siding had gotten. It was high time to replace it, that's for sure. Thanks for visiting my back porch!