We got home from Arizona yesterday and while cleaning out the pond filter basket I saw something wriggling. It turned out to be a tadpole. There are tadpoles in the pond! In fact there were three ...Read More
After two years the algae are back in the pond. The green colors are beautiful but the overall look is definitely worse and you can’t see the fish. I checked the UV filter bulb and it was stil...Read More
I have built a new bridge in the stream above the pond using Bamboo Pipes. Hopefully it will be more stable than the old one that you can see here. This isn’t my final bridge which I hope will b...Read More
This photo was taken a few hours ago from my office window. If you look just to the right of Harold the Heron it appears that he may have a Great Blue girlfriend or boyfriend. One of Harold’s ...Read More
To try and keep the great blue heron from eating all of the fish I enlisted the help of Harold the Heron. Harold in a “great” blue disguise. I bought Harold last summer from Malen Pierson ...Read More
Swallows return to Capistrano. And the Great Blue Heron returns to my pond. A medium sized one is lurking around the pond again this year. This picture was taken a couple of days ago after Missy s...Read More
Last year Lillian bought three large polliwogs from Steve at PTF and put them in the pond. Over the last year we had heard croaking a few times and there were a few splashes that were bigger than fi...Read More
I liked Michelle “My Shell” so much that I named my new garden art using alliteration. I couldn’t get the double meaning thing to work. The heron sculpture is now Harold the Heron. N...Read More
Last Friday I bought a sculpture for the pond area from Malen Pierson of Recycled Visions. The artist and the heron snacks This is a great “Great Blue” Malen’s Postcard One of the ho...Read More