Christy’s Ramblings

…or rather bows because of Mother Nature!

We got a couple inches of very heavy, wet snow last night and the bamboo around the pond just couldn’t handle it.  I’m guessing it’s pretty resilient foliage, but we’ll see how it fares come spring.  Fishes are under there somewhere, hovering in their winter state and waiting until the spring thaw.

I don’t think much fishing will be done in this pond anytime soon!

If you’re not reading this via RSS I’m sure you’ve noticed a change in color scheme. I changed the template from a light color scheme to a black scheme to better display my photos.  After trying many, many different themes I kept coming back to this one because I like the layout, the versatility and the ability to have my rotating images in the top banner.  So I hacked around a bit and made it look how I wanted it to.  I’d appreciate any feedback, any issues or problems you may find, etc.  There are a few small things I will be tweaking, but probably nothing too drastic.  I’ve also added the polls back on the right side if you enjoy poll type stuff.  Happy Monday!

We have our first water lily bloom!  It’s not fully opened yet, but I was too excited to wait.  I’ll post more photos once it’s full.  One of the white blooms is getting close to opening as well and I believe we have a pink lily in there somewhere.  The pond is really starting to shape up.  We got a few plants around the perimeter, a few water plants inside and just need to finish the rock work around the edges.  It’s amazing how many new critters have been in the yard since we put in the big pond.  We have a resident bullfrog, purple martins, dragonflies and all kinds of water striders!  It’s awesome!

Yellow Water Lily

Resident Bullfrog