Feels like a jungle, looks like a jungle

For those of you not located within shouting distance (hi Wife!), it is, in fact, rather hot.  Needless to say, this makes working outside simply glorious.  Going along those lines, it seemed prudent to light a fire to burn the remaining demo debris to ensure Maximum Hotness.  While that took place a little weeding was done.  No pictures were taken of that since it still looks like we're growing vines and other undesirables better than the grass.  Plants were also watered as they seemed to be less than enthused about the lack of rain combined with the heat.  The hydrangeas have some pretty blooms on them (pictures to come tomorrow after they've recovered with the watering).  The border grasses also look pretty good and appear to be spreading.

With regards to the house, it seems as though we reached a bit far with the bright green door against the blue trim and white background.  As a result, we brought in some mitigation efforts in the form of plant life that we hope to not kill in the next 48-72 hours.  Keep your fingers crossed.  Also, the pipe/handrail was painted to "match" the new door hardware.  It's about as close as it's going to get, I think, but that doesn't mean that it won't get painted again.  The loose theme for the plant life was that we wanted something with some variation to try and lighten it up a bit.  The options were better than I thought for things that are relatively hearty (read: harder to kill), shade tolerant, and hopefully not too thirsty.

On the left is a yellow-and-green something that I don't remember, on the right is some variegated cast iron (which I thought meant it got too much sun/not enough water) and a few coleus (colei?) with slight pink dots on green and yellow/white background.

Now the door is still a bit loud, but in my humble opinion, it does look a little more muted.  We've just got to convince one person, right?  ...But, it is still basically Kermit the Frog in Antarctica.  Oh well.

Meh, all told, I think it's better than it was before, so that's progress.  More to come tomorrow