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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. - Flowers in Harold Showalter's garden in Etowah, N.C. He spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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One of several staircases Harold Showalter has constructed in his garden in Etowah, N.C. Harold spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. - Harold Showalter with the crank-operated storage container he constructed from an old planter bed. Showalter spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. - Harold Showalter, 81, and his wife Linda are the people featured in the photos, in the half-acre backyard garden he's worked on for the last 19 years that has 23 terraces, all built by Showalter. He spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT. Harold and Linda Showalter in their garden. Showalter spends six days a week in his garden, which he meticulously constructed himself on the hillside behind his Mountain Valley Drive home in Etowah, N.C. He's created a masterpiece with 23 terraces, numerous walkways and a dizzying assortment of plants. (Derek Lacey /The Times-News via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Guy Hansen controls his balance as he rides his mountain unicycle along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Morgan Hansen, center, hikes along Mount Timpanogos Trail with his father, Guy, right, and their mountain unicycles in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Guy Hansen rides his mountain unicycle along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Morgan Hansen, left, jumps from a bench on his mountain unicycle as his father, Guy, readies his unicycle along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, Guy Hansen rides his mountain unicycle through a patch of snow along Mount Timpanogos Trail in American Fork Canyon near Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP)
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Hotel guests Leonard Perry and Breanna Bundle of Kalamazoo wait in a parking lot with their luggage after an explosion in the area of the Antheneum Hotel and Fishbones restaurant caused Greektown buildings in Detroit to be evacuated on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Authorities say an underground electrical cable failure caused explosions in downtown Detroit that sent manhole covers into the air and prompted the evacuation of the restaurant and the Atheneum Suite Hotel. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP)
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Fishbones employees wait across the street from the restaurant after an explosion in Detroit's Greektown caused evacuations on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Authorities say an underground electrical cable failure caused explosions in downtown Detroit that sent manhole covers into the air and prompted the evacuation of the restaurant and the Atheneum Suite Hotel. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP)
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This combination photo of cover images released by Vintage Books shows, from left, "Breathing Lessons, "The Accidental Tourist" and "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," all by Anne Tyler. Paperback editions of Tyler's novels are being issued over the next several months. (Vintage Books via AP)
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Stan Lee and Chadwick Boseman speak at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grants Banquet at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Phil Klemmer, from left, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Tala Ashe and Marc Guggenheim participates in the "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" panel during The CW portion of the 2017 Summer TCA's at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Phil Klemmer, from left, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz participate in the "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" panel during The CW portion of the 2017 Summer TCA's at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Brandon Routh, from left, Caity Lotz and Tala Ashe participate in the "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" panel during The CW portion of the 2017 Summer TCA's at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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In this June 18, 2017 photo, Mariana Limachi holds her swaddled newborn Abraham Dilan next to her husband Wilder Chambi, their first child, after giving birth inside their home with the help of a midwife in El Alto, Bolivia. After Limachi was told by a doctor that she needed a C-section, she sobbed uncontrollably all the way to a small shop where she sells disposable dishes in El Alto, the sprawling sister city of the Bolivian capital, La Paz. One of her clients advised her to seek a midwife. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, the White House in Washington. On Inauguration Day, it’s supposed to feel like home when Donald Trump enters the White House residence for the first time as president. His clothes will be hanging in the closet. The kitchen will be stocked with his favorite foods. Windows will have been washed, carpets cleaned, and fresh linens and towels will be in all the bedrooms and baths. No packed or half-empty boxes will be lying around. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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The Old Family Dining Room is seen after its renovation at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. The nearly 200-year-old Old Family Dining Room has been added to the White House tour route for the first time in White House history. It was recently renovated and will be a showcase for 20th century art and design, the White House said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)