More before and after photos from this weekend. Here is our side yard before, completely overrun with weeds:

And here it is after Mr Moo and I spent several hours attacking it:

The shadowed area was really dark so I lightened everything in Photoshop. I'm really pushing Mr Moo about having a landscaper come in and do something with the yard this year. We've been in this house for over 10 years now and the yard is still a hot mess. I used to have a lot of nice plants in this bed, but I never bothered to replace any of them as they died off. The bed needs to be widened and the sprinkler system in it redone. I didn't want to fill it up with plants only to have to dig them all up again. Time to get moving on it now that it's empty.