Time to revive the blog

So I've realized that the gardening blogs I want to see are mostly pictures.  When planning my garden as a novice, I want to know what to expect.  So I'd love to see blogs where people just took pictures of their gardens through the year, briefly explained what was going on in the pictures, and left it at that.  That doesn't seem awfully time-consuming, so I am going to start doing that myself!

Not much is going on in the garden at the moment because we have had relentless rain since Spring started.  I am going to have to get my boots and rainpants on eventually and brave it to get things going.  But for now, I will post some pictures of how things have transformed so far. 

Brendan and I moved into our house that we bought in West Seattle in August 2009.  Here we are, a year and a half later.  We did a lot over last summer to transform things and it is so far from completion it is not even funny!  We had big ambitions and learned a lot about reducing our expectations and just taking baby steps. 

This was our first "baby step" last year.  

 Our entire back yard was lumpy grass.  We decided to take a shovel to it, dig up all the grass, and then rototill the crap out of it!!  Then we hand tamped it, then it rained and got lumpy again.  So we rototilled and tamped it again and got our landscape fabric down.

We made a few raised beds and framed out a future patio.  The area on the right was still uncertain.

Two days later....the photo above was taken.  Looks like it rained, got muddy, yuck! 
Though I had used some of the leftover soil to plant my blueberries in containers, as well as my fig tree, and a few other veggies.  We were attempting the square foot gardening method, which, as you will see, we failed at!!
The small bed in the middle with the t-trellis is for our raspberries.  So nice and tidy with only two plants.