sunbursts, rose trellises, etc

I found this sunburst last year and couldn't resist getting it. We put it by the streetside door (which most people would call the front door, but when you live on the lake, your lakeside door is your front door - so this is our back door).
I apologize for the quality of these photos - sometime I'm going to have to read the book or listen as Mark explains the camera to me - but for now, this is what you get. This is a totally bad photo, but wanted to show what the sunburst looks like by the back door. (Do you love my urn??) ((Do you see how I haven't done my containers yet???))
Our son and daughter-in-law brought me this little guy from Mexico a couple years ago. I think he's cute - but does he look a little too happy - or like the devil - or like he's on drugs... something about those eyes is just a little scary.

This is a smaller version of the one by the door. I liked it so much, I wanted one in every size!

And this one I picked up several years ago at Pier One. He's cute - but his eyes are just cut-outs, so sometimes he gets weird looking too, depending on what's behind him.

What started my little sunburst collection is a gorgeous copper sunburst we bought in Sedona, Arizona. I have it inside the house because I would be very sad if someone borrowed it. I'll get a photo of it sometime - but it's so pretty, I think it should be a good photo.

Mark whipped out a rose trellis for me this morning. He ended up doing these 3 arches (which I think look kind of like another sunburst) and attaching it to the top of the fence. He welded on two legs to add support. I have J.F.Quadra - a rosy-red climbing rose - planted here. It can use the fence for support until it gets too tall - and then this trellis should be perfect.

Another view. We are trying to screen some of the stuff on the other side of the fence. We like our neighbor just fine, but he's an older single guy who is much more interested in fishing than in cleaning up the homestead. And personally I say more power to him - but I'd rather look at climbing roses and vines etc than his stuff.

We had to replace this retaining wall 3 years ago - and they filled the edge of the yard with clay. It's taken me two years of adding compost to get soil that something will grow in. So I'm just starting to get this planted out. This year I put dahlias in part of it - hope they look cool.

This is an old copper fountain that I decided would be more useful as garden decoration. So today I planted it. It's pretty cool - the top bowl is still copper colored, but the rest of it has turned green.

I spent most of the day washing plastic tarps so we could get them put away until next fall. Ugh. At one point I had most of the fences covered with drying tarps. Tried to get a photo, but none turned out. Some people hang out their sheets to dry - I drape tarps on the fence.