Category: pond
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My Ponds with Photos
I’m currently in the process of adding newer photos to update progressAt the top of the kitchen garden, this new pond is a salvage that I had to repair using plastic welding techniques. I tried to create a clay based pond in this place, but all last year it filled many times and never held…
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Seasons Change
No, I’m not talking about Spring to Summer, but wet to dry, or in this case wet to moist. It’s June, and there’s still some water falling occasionally, but evaporation has caught up with precipitation and left many of the plants getting thirsty. I’ve started to water plants, and plan to start pumping water from…
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More Rain
20th May, 2018 I hear about deserts that get all their rain in a few short (but often powerful) episodes, and three days later it’s impossible to believe there was ever water in dried river beds and barren landscapes. Here in VA we had another 24 hour period with around 4 inches of rain,…
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I’ll Be Back
Yes, the heron has returned. I surprised the heron last night–or it surprised me, or neither surprised either, depending on how one perceives it. But the heron was at the fish pond and the fish went into hiding again. I’m hoping the problem was that i had moved both scarecrows back a bit further from…
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The Fall
September 6, 2017 Walking back from the fish pond in the rain, I had this new sense of well being, and not just because of the relief from drought and hot temperatures. Of course this time of year there is always the possibility of monsoons, or hurricanes dropping large amounts of water all at once,…