I felt the need to point this out since Cindy's dad told her he thought the steps went in the wrong direction, so I thought I would shoot a few photos that show they really go up from the canyon, as well as down to it.
We also put in some steps going up along the edge of the canyon from the area where the compost bins now sit. We will eventually install an iron or steel hand rail along those steps, but for now it's a nice way to get up to that part of the yard.
Cindy has spent the past week scraping off some of the excess dirt from the area that will eventually become the small orchard, and building a small retaining wall beside the new barbecue grill pad.
Somehow that piece didn't get figured into the plans for the project, but it needed to be done for erosion control. We left the stump of the Jacaranda tree in place after we had the tree taken out several years ago, so that stump will also help control erosion in that area.
Jacarandas are beautiful trees all over San Diego at this time of year, but they are really messy trees; the beautiful purple blossoms fall all over the place, they continually shed tiny leaves and the seeds get all over everything, too.
I think Cindy did a really good job on this little wall.
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