Your yard is amazing - actually, beyond amazing! I'll have to think about what I collect - I'm still stunned from your dazzling gardens.

Ron, you have an awesome 'collection' of succulents and the hardscape is gorgeous~looks like you put in a lot of hard work in that god-awful soil! I'm from San Diego, now Austin TX coming up on 2 years. We have clay(Caliche)also, but not near as bad as the 'concrete' in SD. Keep up the great garden work! ;o)

I can't believe that all thst stuff is in one yard, but then, maybe you have a big yard. Beautiful gardening and landscaping. Photos are good too. You have more variety than a lot of parks do.

Thank you jemdandy, patty_cakes, and antiquesilver for your generous comments.

So as a follow up, here are some of the things I've been collecting over the years--

Here are bronze tigers from the Meiji era on the dinning room table. I also have a lion downstairs. In the upstairs bathroom is a Meiji era carved lion, lioness, & two cubs. Also in the dinning room I have a 6-foot tall carved giraffe and a large carved rhinoceros. The entrance to the front door has two carved elephants and then just inside the house are two more which are four feet tall!
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