Part 6
I needed a waterfall. In my youth, Spring Houses were built over places where a natural spring surfaced, (it was County law to cover it before it could be labeled potable). I built a Spring House out of Cedar. I put a windmill on it to pump water. Of course none of that is real. At the back you can see a filter/tub behind the Jasmine screen (no Jasmine yet). Eventually I replaced the smaller tub with the same size as the one in the ground. Gravity takes the water from the tub through the Spring House.
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Jumping forward a bit, you can see it turned out OK.
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K wanted to do her part, here she is mounting a Heron:
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I have real Herons, Egrets, Terns, Grebes, even Comorants etc in the cove a hundred foot away. Herons are solitary birds. The theory is they won't come where another is except during mating so a decoy work opposite for them. All I can say is that I have never had/seen a Heron at this pond. I was no where near water in Matthews and they raided my pond a few times, so go figure!