so over the past couple weeks I've been babyproofing by installing fence all around our front yard (here seen lit up with solar lighting just after sunset tonight)
daylight closeup: it's lightweight powdercoated steel with charming butterflies and plant designs along the top - strong enough to keep Baby Harvey from running out into the street (especially when reinforced with stakes clamped to the fence joints), yet open enough to not make the yard feel hemmed in
eventually those little shrubs will fill in the area just inside the fence, creating a more private space and homes for little birds (I've transplanted more than 50 volunteers along the sidewalk over the past year)
the apple, pear, and mimosa trees are all getting taller every day, too, and the new gardens are now lush with wildflowers, tulips, wild roses, butterfly bushes, hyacinth, rhododendron, hibiscus, and more
here's a night view of the new entrance arbor, which will have a special custom gate tomorrow (if all goes according to plan)
Baby loves his new tree-swing, suspended from a branch reinforced with a swingset-style wooden bipod staked to the ground and lashed to the tree
Harvey wants to go outside all the time to play, drifting lazily over the grass and wildflowers just beginning to stretch into the sunshine. he carries his little shoes to me and asks in baby-language to put them on so he can toddle out into his new playground
I'm teaching him that the bright "star" overhead is Jupiter, and now the Moon has moved into the sky over his swing branch
makes all the work worth it