Homage to Dappled Light

So Reed was a little sad when he came home and saw the stark reality of the treeless backyard. So here are some images of how the screen porch felt before the tree came down, when it was wrapped in ivy and getting filtered light through the trees.

And here is a picture of the backyard with the tree in full force.
You can see the current naked backyard in the earlier post "a backside only a mother could love".

I am working on planning some screening trees: we had a beautiful katsura tree at our house in Seattle, so we will put some of those in, and, if they are good trees for the site, quaking aspens along the north edge of the house.