Fully fenced in back yard in a quiet, residential neighborhood. We're a couple miles from the train tracks and can hear the occasional train passing by. The yard is mostly open grass with some bushes and trees along the fence; the north side has a rose bush and a black berry bush with thorns. Throughout the day, different parts of the yard will be shaded. There is a dirt/weedy patch where a tree stump was removed that I’m still working on cleaning up that’s near the veggie gardens. Please leave those alone. There’s a new seating area with two chairs on the brick patio next to the house that you’re welcome to use. The chairs are new and made from Acacia wood (a plastic bench can been seen in a few of the photos, but it was old and has been replaced with these chairs as of July 14). The tennis balls and a bowl for water are stored in a plastic tote between the chairs and the back stairs. The hose is draped on top of the fence by the gate you enter through, and the location to turn it on has been marked in the photos (it was temporarily connected to a sprinkler but has been put back). It can be used to fill the water bowl, and it has one of the multi-stream option handles. I don't have any outdoor animals (I have two indoor cats and one does sometimes sit in the window that's visible from the backyard). The yellow house next to us has dogs that are often kept indoors, but there is a small fenced in area of their backyard where they'll sometimes be moved to that is visible from my back yard. The neighbors across the street from them have at least one dog too, but they would only potentially be visible from the parking spot, not the back yard, and I don't see them very often. There are a couple of neighborhood/stray cats that walk through my yard, and I frequently see birds, squirrels, and rabbits around and in the back yard.