What does your pond look like ... Today?

[bettasngoldfish]

I'm always amazed just how BIG koi can get. I really only see them in pet stores for sale and they are fairly young and still small.

 

[sissy]

When they get over 2 feet long that starts to be the time you hope nothing happens to your liner .I know even when I changed my liner aggie and bert were really heavy to pick up

 

[pecan]

Yesterday we had the heaviest rain I have seen since living in this town (13 years). We were lucky as we barely escaped getting flooded out. But just down the street from us people had a couple feet of water in their house and the roads all around us were closed.

My husband quickly grabbed some extra mulch I had laying around and used it as sand bags to prevent our little house from flooding (little house is an extra house we have in our backyard my brother is currently living in). Little house sits on a slab at ground level. Our house has a finished basement and we had no water leak in thankfully.

Flooding pictures.


And a couple pictures of the ponds after the water receded. No damage done to the ponds and thankfully because of my raised edge around the big pond, none of the flood waters went into the pond.

 

[addy1]

A year of rain in a moment! glad you did not get flooded.

 

[bettasngoldfish]

Glad you didn't have any serious issues pecan. As always your ponds are beautiful.

We could actually use some rain here. Took this over the weekend

 

[sissy]

your whole area there looks like a pond pecan .lucky you dodged the bullet .It is supposed to rain tomorrow here and I sure hope they are right .

 

[callingcolleen1]

Wow Pecan that water almost swept the fish away!! So glad everybody was ok!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Here's my pond today.

The waterfall did not get finished, but it's closer to being there. I also made a small water feature out of a hollow log. I stuck a liner in it and used an old pump I had.

Perry's Orange Sunset

Blanket Flower

Globeflower

Dragonfly

Mrs. Duck on her nest. She's been nice company to have around.
She sits on the eggs all day and leaves around 6 or 6:30, and comes back before sunset. Roughly two more weeks until they start hatching.

 

[pecan]

Wow Pecan that water almost swept the fish away!! So glad everybody was ok!

I did spend some time looking at the flood waters closely for bright colored fishIes who may have decided to go on a little adventure LOL.

 

[Christopher Caudill]

Love those beautiful blooms and the log water feature, what a great idea! @JBtheExplorer

 

[sissy]

well where the heck is the rain it is 6 pm and nothing .Not so patiently waiting

 

[Troutredds]

I love seeing so many great pond images on this thread. Here's a late afternoon view here today and a shot of the neighbor's birds - They're loud and shameless but pretty!

 

[sissy]

A guy has them here but they are blue and white and that is all .The birds chest is white with a light powder blue down the middle of there chest .

 

[haver79]

Wow pecan. Do you know how much rain you ended up with? Glad it didnt flood the pond. You shouldn't have to water any plants for awhile!

Beautiful pictures everyone!

JB LOVE the log water feature!!

 

[cas]

@haver79 , haven't seen any recent pictures of your pond.... please share.

Love the log @JBtheExplorer