This is what things are looking like at present.

The picture above shows the back yard with butterfly bushes along the bottom of the bank. We're going to put some Blue Moon and red hydrangea between/above the butterfly bush and below the burning bush that is along the top of the bank.

Guess what? We have spreading juniper planted on this bank. See the little green spots?

A shot from the drive looking up after getting the pine straw spread.

This shows a little more of the length along/above the drive.

This is looking down from the front porch toward the bottom. There is still one brush pile I have to burn and there is a wisp of smoke coming up from the one that's been burning for about three days.