This is the hedge wall... or ex-hedge wall right at the rear window. It was all too much, too big, too close to each other, the deck, and the foundation. I took a chainsaw to it all while screaming 'Flavio's brains!'
That grey pipe is a poorly hidden electrical conduit for the sprinkler system.
Off to the right, right at the deck... the BBQ station inset to the deck, I found this. It would appear to be a direct gas feed for a BBQ unit. I wonder if it still works?
T, there was a big hill behind the house sparcely covered in mulch and ivy, a non functional spa (I'm gonna bring some big guage wire this year and get that running) and a bad ass driveway, that I'd kill for on a winter's morning with a flat battery. What did I miss?
This is the rose in question. Note how most of the living slender growth of it is shooting down and to the left. Tis a side effect of being on its side in a pit for a year... and under a hedgewall of kudzu lines at that. The little cluster of flowers were the only thing I could see of it. At first I only thought the thing was a small wild plant about a foot tall. It turned out to be about 9 feet tall and utterly entwined and half dead.
2 shots of the 'ravine' The upland spot where the rose was found is level ground. The pic is fuzzed because it was taken through a screened window. The right side of the ravine, or street side if you will, is a bit of a chasam going at least 4 1/2 meters deep and a bit wide. A semi could disappear in it.
I remember that little earth feature... had a great view of it from the bathroom window, so every time I took a whiz upstairs I had a great view of it.