BB: funny you call your old swimming pool a pond, but if you like it better using it that way it's your call. I think I saw some goldfish in it or what do you have swimming in it?
nice looking bridge and I bet the brickwork will really make it look even better. I wonder if taking out the diving board supports and putting flagstone or brick or just removing the cement pool deck might give it an even better POND LOOK?
don't injure your knees cause even though you can buy new knees these days it's nice to know the old ones we were born with still function.
take care!!
Thanks drives. The pool has been a pond for several years now. In fact, we have a second generation of eastern painted turtle now living in. We also have many generations of gold fish, bull frogs as big as your fist, leopard frogs, dragon flies, and water iris. Who knows what else. The brickwork is almost done. One coat of paint yesterday. And the detail will be four brass eyes connecting a chain to every column and bridge support (cosmetic). Brick entrances on both ends and brass finials atop both center posts. I still have to make these. Not so many posts on threads nowadays so no step by step pictures. I see many of us slowing down just to switch gears and weather the coming winds.
Hard to put a face on our place when ours is half covered. I'm afraid we as a people are losing our identity, fearing the loss of our lives. Our face is who we are. Our smile is our gift to the world. Our creations are an outward expression of inward beauty we can share, even with future generations.
How sad we cannot fully express that beauty now in something as simple as a smile. What memory will we leave with our children and grandchildren? Have you ever seen a smile on a corpse. Mine will remember the one I had on my face.
