A case of shingles

I had English ivy in the bed below my dining room windows for years. Not a good idea. The ivy is so strong it would literally get under the shingles and pry them loose. On top of that they covered the pieces on the bottom rows near the foundation and rotted them across the bottom. Lesson learned. I'll never do that again. So Scott pulled them all out a few weeks ago. I wanted to plant new blue hydrangea in that bed but before I could do so I needed to have the shingles replaced. I got estimates from 3 carpenters and went with the middle bid. It only too two guys one afternoon to repair the damage and it looks good. It was a costly mistake but I'm glad it's fixed. Here's a progression of pictures from BEFORE to AFTER...

I realized after the fact that the shingles underneath the sliding glass door were rotted too. So I replaced them myself with the extra shingles that were left over from the job.