Thank you for your kind words @artemislives, appreciate it! We have done our best to create a sanctuary of sorts here... even though we are only on 2/3 acre, it has become like a small park where we get all manners of creatures and birds that aren't really seen in numbers around here.

We've been following (loosely) a campaign on the theme of "GROW it, don't MOW it" to get away a bit from the typical empty lawns of suburbia. It works... at least for us!