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At Home |
| Besides a love for nature and for dogs, Leo and Kim also share a passion for landscaping and gardening. We bought our house in East Portland Oregon in 2004, and began designing a landscape plan for the acre of raw land the new house sat on. |  |
 View of back from living room window. Structure in the background is the vegetable garden with kiwi and grape trellis. |
Part of our shared vision was to create a "sanctuary", not only for ourselves, but our families, friends, and of course the dogs! The fist step was to have the large ponds and waterfalls built, and then to plant a large selection of trees both common, and not so common. |
| We created a mixed forest at the back of the property, a large vegetable garden, an edible fruit garden, a flower meadow, and lots of grass for the dogs. |
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 Upper pond and creek from deck |
The front consists of a shade garden, perennials, roses, dahlias, and anything else we find at the garden shows we love to attend! |
| The shade garden at the front of the house |
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White lotus flower in Koi pond |
| Some of the Koi at feeding time |
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The fire pit, great for roasting marshmallows! |
| Maya and Audrey watching the snow fall. |
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Water lillies in the pond |
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 A beautiful blue poppy from the garden |
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| Carbon taking his job of 'vermin eradication' very seriously. |
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Kim with the fruits of the earth from their garden |
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The front gate with roses in full bloom. There are chickadee's nesting in the tree box, and a fox sparrow nesting in the roses. |
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| We planted a dove tree in the hobbit yard to add to the Cardi fairy tale... The tree is covered in dove flowers each spring. |
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One of our favorite flowers, Lilacs! |
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And on
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The entry way and dining room opening up into the living room. |
| The bright airy living room, which has a huge window for viewing the landscape and backyard. |
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Kim waking up to mornings with Maya, Vickie
and Crystal. And yes, Maya loves cream with her coffee! Our
Cardigans are our companions first, show dogs second. |
| The corner guest room with its fabulous view overlooking wooded areas and a mountain in the distance is Kim's favorite. |
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