SCHOOL OF ROCKS

Okay readers, I need some serious help. My father, as he is prone to do, likes to invade my front/back yard with his “design” (cough, cough) projects, and I’m left staring in disbelief at the fallout. There’s no use in arguing, it’s like an earthquake, you can’t argue with an earthquake. So my sweet daddy (he is very sweet, and he really means well) has done it again, and I need your help to figure out what the heck to do.

I have an “L-shaped” house: The front door faces the street and the hook of the “L” is the garage, thusly I have a semi-circular drive from the street up to the garage. Here’s the trouble: Dad dug two trenches on either side of the driveway and filled them with bright white rocks. BRIGHT WHITE ROCKS. Bright white rocks straight out of a 1976 episode of Kojak now line the path to my garage. What on earth do I do, people? Help! Some of you will say, get rid of them. This is like telling the earthquake to not wreak havoc on the people of San Francisco. It’s not gonna happen. I’ve got to work around it. Someone out there, do you have any idea how to landscape something pretty with bright white rocks?? And don’t tell me to spray-paint the rocks. Three people told me that, and I’m not buying it. Might as well tell me to put a plastic fawn in the front lawn while you’re at it.