Tom has been filling up the cans (again) with leaves raked from The Jungle.  We keep saying "next cycle should get them all", but (as noted) we keep on having to say it!  He ended up needing to bushwhack the jungle (translation: 'trim' the monster oleanders, despite 'promises' of NEVER doing that again!) in order to get to the leaves underneath.   

It's hard to tell just how much he's cut, but up until a few hours ago that hedge on the right reached all the way over to the peach tree on the left side of the picture. (note large green trash can in the shade for scale.)

Tom's lost track of how many wheelbarrow loads of branches he's taken over to the bulk trash staging area.

And look how nicely the other hedge (easily 15 feel tall before this winter's 4-day hard freeze) is filling in after Tom had to cut them way back this spring.

I'm about to go refill the hummingbird feeders.  This morning I picked up a baby bottle brush in hopes of being able to get the feeders really clean inside; a paper-towel wrapped around a chopstick just doesn't quite work well enough.