Things Keep Slipping Away

In this photo you can still see the stairs to the deck on the right side of the house, and the rickety fence that surrounds the property. There is a row of evergreen trees (look like pine trees) on the right side of the lot, but most of them were still small, so I had to stake them to keep them from growing sideways down the embankment. That split rail fence section is on our property line, and that is the only piece of it anywhere on the lot. All along that embankment there grows a shrub with a leaf shaped like a heart; it's fuzzy, and coarse, and I have no idea what it is I only know that in the summer grows so densely it hides the neighbors yard, and makes a wonderful privacy hedge. It can easily get out of control, and suckers profusely, and if I’m not out there cutting it back once a week it will take over the yard. You will also notice that there are some tree stumps (towards the bottom of the picture)where we cut down pine trees, and we also had both of the Silver Maples pruned back because one was so large it was overhanging onto the neighbors roof, and the other was too dense, and the limbs were entangling themselves with the other tree. You can only see the stump of one because the arborist misunderstood me, and cut the second one all the way down to the ground. I was furious; now it's more like a shrub than a tree