OMG, LOOK what we finally finished last night:
This represents an unbelievable amount of work (mostly for M.H.) but look how amazing it is. We did an even longer one of these on the other side of the driveway last year…
…and I’m not sure I don’t prefer these flagstone paths without the plants! Maybe I just need to figure out the right plants. Or retake the second photo during magic hour for a fair comparison.
At any rate, I now have a walkway that completely encircles the house (the backyard portion transitions into a much plainer-looking crushed granite). I had originally envisioned building a meditative labyrinth in the backyard, but honestly this is more practical, and you could definitely still use it for a meditative stroll around the house if you weren’t too worried about the neighbors thinking you were odd.
I was about to title this post “Done with flagstone!” but actually I have tons of leftover rocks that I plan to use to build some less formal pathways throughout the backyard.
Total cost of flagstone paths: $25 for materials on Facebook Marketplace and 1 billion hours of backbreaking labor. (I think we relocated the pile of stone something like seven times as the project progressed.)
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