Just like doing mountain climbers

You saw me whine the other day on Facebook after a lawmowing session, so I thought I'd share a couple of pics of the backyard.  What's not included is the yard next door that I also mowed that day and that's why it was a two-beer Briggs & Stratton workout.

What you're looking at:  The front of the house (not shown) is on street level, which is the same level as this first picture looking down into the backyard, which was taken from the deck that connects our front porch to the carriage barn. 

There's a set of steps from that deck down to the upper backyard (immediately behind the barn) and that is level with the floor of the basement.  Then down the hill to another level and small yard, then yet again down another level to the lowest part of the yard, which is where these 2 pics looking up toward the house are taken from.   What's also not shown in these 2 looking up the hill is the long sloping lawn running from the bottom all the way to the street level to the left of the house.

The 4th picture is a close-up of a Japanese type of willow tree that's the centerpiece of one of the gardens holding the hill up.  Unfortunately the big wildflower hill garden and the crabapple tree were not in bloom when I took these last week.
There's no way you could mow that with a riding mower, which is why the beer frig is in the basement near the backyard.  It has lots of character and I do like mowing but it's one helluva workout each week.