Late February in Oakland and a New Garden Path

Over to Oakland this afternoon to see the new garden path, which is finally in — flagstone set into gravel, winding from the driveway up toward the house. The lawn is gone completely. In its place: agaves, echeverias, a few big boulders that must have taken some doing, and Spanish lavender already blooming purple along the edge of the path even though everything else is barely out of the ground.

Most of the plants are still small, little green tufts spaced out across bare soil, so it reads more as a plan than a garden right now. Give it a year. There's still a pile of leftover flagstone stacked by the driveway, and a stray scrap or two out in the beds waiting to be dealt with.