Taking a stroll around the yard to see what's happening has become my routine as of late.

The pink blooms are beginning to fade on the first azalea cluster. But the white half still looks great.

The second azalea is now blooming. Unlike the others, this one blooms in a dark red color.

The rest of the azaleas looked like they were starting to fade.

A few nice blooms were still visible.

Azalea bloom by the driveway.

The azaleas looked great this year. But I still have a lot of work to do to them.

In addition to removing all of the weeds and vines, I need to figure out how to prune and shape them so they don't look so wild.

The wild look is much better suited to the side yard privacy hedges.

Everything has filled in quite well.

I had a conversation with my neighbor about these berry-producing bushes. She called them, "Heavenly Bamboo," which I've never heard of.

A quick Google search for Heavenly Bamboo told me that these are nandina bushes. Like the spotted laurels just out of view to the left in the photo above, nandinas are practically indestructible. My neighbor told me that I can run them over with the mower and they will grow back. With that kind of reputation, it's no surprise that nandinas are considered invasive in Georgia, which explains why I see them everywhere. I've got them all over the yard.

Speaking of my neighbor, I see that I'm being watched.

I seem to have a lot of this suspicious looking vine in the yard.

Something, something, "Leaves of three, let it be," something.

Still watching me, silently judging me.

After several weeks of seeing beautiful white, the cherry tree is now fully green.

Let's try a driveway panorama, because why not.

I need to get rid of the basketball pole and backboard.

Two-picture driveway panorama.

I wanted to see if I could get all of the blooming azaleas in one picture.

So I started at the end of the driveway and panned to the right.

Stitching the first two pics together gave me a good shot of most of the azaleas. But unfortunately, I couldn't add a third picture.

I must have turned at a weird angle because the third picture wouldn't combine with the first two. No big deal. It's not like I don't do this all the time anyways.