Home sweet home

I'm finally posting some long-awaited house pictures. I'll post some of the interior here shortly as well. As you can tell from the pictures, our cute little house comes with a gorgeous lawn. That was one of the first things that attracted me to it, and I've always thought some flowers here and there make all the difference in the world between an average-looking house and a homey, , friendly house.
The man who sold us our house was retired and spent hours on end out in his yard planting flowers, landscaping, and weeding. He must have sunk hundred, if not thousands, of dollars into buying plants and paving bricks. Me, well my only goal so far is not to kill anything. So far, I'm pretty much succeeding. It's a little easier now that it's raining more often and not a scorching hot 105 degrees every day.
It's been fun trying to get my gardening sea legs under me, so to speak. I'll keep hoping that if my thumb doesn't turn green, it will at least be a nice shade of chartruese.