I think you need to have grass before you have a lawn. We had the front seeded in the spring & it was coming up, sort of, but now it's nothing. Is this brown? In 6 days we will celebrate the 1st anniversary of our last measurable rain - August 4, 2010. Now, if Tropical Storm Don would only grow up & become a hurricane, we just might get some much needed rain! :-)
P.S. These were taken during one of our many dust storms. It's windy here most of the time & with no grass to glue the dirt down, these are common, not daily, but very often.