We broke ground for our pond on 14 June 2004.  Things grow fast in Miami.
 
Stoddard / Read backyard & pond
Tony excavates, June 2004
just completed, Aug 2004
first swims, Sep 2004
4 years growth, Jun 2008
View from kitchen
sunrise
winter sunlight
after breakfast
Gray & Vannak inspect
Gray & Vannak on deck, Jun 08
breakfast
Vannak's 10th birthday
happy girls in pond
Gray cantilevered on water
damselfly
Six-spotted fishing spider
sail-finned molly
heron on deck
red-shouldered hawk
girl & toad, Sep 2007
Utricularia eats a tadpole
pond veg
water lilies
Iguaga iguana
swamp lily
swamp hybiscus
southern flag iris
water lily