There is a new neighbor on my street, who owns a landscaping company. Soon after he moved in, my next-door neighbor hired him to clear away the overgrown, mismatched hedge (shown in this 2014 post) along our property line. The work is still in progress, but it’s already looking much better. Other than a redbud at the front (which I like) and a few other trees left standing, it has mostly been cut down. I took a photo of it this afternoon, and the open space felt pleasant and inviting.

I don’t yet know what will be planted there, but I am sure it will be an improvement, whatever it is. My husband told our new neighbor that we’d like to have some landscaping work done, too. After all the time I spent last summer cutting back some neglected bushes, which had to be gotten out of the way before having new windows installed, I definitely like the idea of contracting out this season’s yard work.

Deciding what to tag this post gave me some indecision. I had in mind that leaving space for improvement invites good things to show up, but I couldn’t think of a word that seemed quite right to express that idea. Looking in my list of previously used tags, I chose “Attraction” and “Positivity,” which came close. I tried putting the question into an AI prompt and got “Manifestation” in response, but I opted against that one because I hadn’t visualized anything in particular for the landscaping.

After pondering over it a little longer, I added “Places,” which is a tag I use for how my surroundings make me feel. At that point, I decided three tags would be enough—no need to be a perfectionist about it.