THE LITTLE GARDEN POND WE UNCOVERED IN THE WOODS

Hello Friends,
Today I want to tell you about our Frog Pond.
The first photo is one I took with an old 35 mm camera and scanned into our computer when we first moved here a few years ago.
I was so excited to find a little puddle of water that was NOT seasonal but held water all year round. We didn't realize how large the 'pond' area was, until he started cleaning out brush, downed trees, weeds and briars. We affectionately call it our frog pond since we are serenaded most of the year by hundreds of frogs that live in it.






We have been doing all of the work by hand so far, using a push mower, wearing out one pair of snippers, breaking 2 rakes, 1 hoe, 2 shovels and shattering 1 axe and 2 chain saws are history. We also used a weedwhacker but we lost it in the recent fire.



Here is a pic I took January 2006, the first snow of the year
Big difference, isn't it !!!





It is such a beautiful area.
The biggest problem we have is not being able to
clean it out very well. Our chain saw is now out of commission so we are at a standstill as far as trimming tree branches and large saplings and we still have a few mature trees we are wanting to clear out. The leaves from the oak (which I wish we could move, not cut down)
make the water look black and sometimes slimy. He has been tilling the area by hand and is making me a easier walkable path around our little pond.




Here is a pic I took on Saturday Feb 4th 2006 during our latest snowfall.




The actual area is approximately 25' wide and 25' across.


I need to resize all of my photos from our Garden Bench project, so it will be tomorrow before I can show you how he made our garden bench last weekend when we had a warm spell.
It is hard to believe how much our weather here in Kentucky can change so drastically from one day to the next. When we made our Garden Bench last weekend, we didn't even need a jacket...




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