a friend sent me some photographs recently and in amongst them was this picture of my beloved in front of the just finished pergola/gate…

it had the cutest fastener on the gate… I can’t remember when we put all of the pergolas in, but at that time – many moons ago – we still had the waterbed pond beside it…

then I dug out this one from July, 2009 (a bit fuzzy), when he added a shelf for stuff to sit on while we were in the new hot tub… that was fifteen years ago🤪…

and this is how it looks today;-)…

I showed the original picture to my grandsons and it took them a minute to recognize it, lol…

it does need a trim so that the Virginia creeper isn’t overpowering it and the gate could have a prettier fastener…

time flies…