The front "landscaped area" of my house is self-sustaining - I don't water it and things live. That is MY kind of gardening. But unfortunately, that means my whole front yard is just a few green shrubs (I swear those things will still be alive after World War 3) and a couple trees that are somewhat green (then brown by fall). SO, the upside is everything lives - the downside is I have absolutely NO color in front of my house (other than a 2 week period where some of the leaves on one tree turn red - it's a glorious 2 weeks - and I swear no one even drives by during that time to notice it).
So, this began my quest for COLOR in my front yard - but something I couldn't kill. Garden gnomes weren't an option as I'm not eighty years old yet. The only thing that wasn't brown/green in front of my house was the birdbath - which was a beautiful muted cement color (<-- note the sarcasm). BINGO! So..... this happened: