Some pictures I want to share.

That's beautiful, Frank. Thanks for sharing.

Magical - wonderful to have creatures like that in your back garden! Love the koi carp too. Plus a great photo of Nancy and cat! Thank you.

Yes.beautiful. So lush. Lovely deer.

Really nice, thanks for sharing.

Thank you all for posting. We have two great looking fawns back there also...but they are skittish...and getting pix of them is going to be hard. I'll keep trying.

Oh, and Nancy and Cabot are lovely too..

They are indeed. I'm going to post another picture of Nancy...and one of Joe Nation and his new Calgarian love, S. We were on a boat trip on the Hudson this week...and had a ball. Joe and S. look like it is a great thing they have going.

Please do, be great to see them.

Pix of Joe and S. I already posted them in his thread, but no comments there yet. Ain't they a great looking couple!










Another picture of Nancy on the boat.





And of another lovely lady!

By the way...that is the new World Trade Center Building in the background of the picture of Nancy.

They certainly are. Nancy is a very attractive lady too.

lovely


And yummmyyy.... back yard venison..

Gorgeous backyard!!!!
I'm in the process of getting everything I need to build a pond as we speak. If I may, in the future, come looking for some advice.

Now all the questions about Calgary make sense. Good on ya, Joe. I wish you every happiness.

An outdoor pond is a hugely rewarding enterprise, Ceili. They are beyond imagination to watch.

I noticed someone above mentioned Koi. Actually, we have shubunkin and large goldfish (fantails) rather than Koi. Even though we put a heater in the pond during the winter, the Koi have lots of problems tolerating the cold weather...and we lost most of our Koi due to this.

But there are many hardy fish with brilliant colors.

Especially with garlic.

Thank you so much for sharing those, Frank. Fab pix indeed.

The best way to get pics of them would be to get a trail camera.
Its a motion activated camera that you can mount in a tree or in a bush. They aren't that expensive and you can get some great shots with them.

The deer in your yard are some great shots. Consider yourself fortunate that you can get them because deer are usually skittish as hell.

The koi pond is beautiful. How much work went in to installing it, or did someone else install it for you?

The pond was no trouble at all. I came home one day 20 years ago and decided to dig it. My yard is easy digging...and I dug it in a couple of hours. My original lining was not so hot...so I had to replace it a couple of years back...but this new lining is super. The landscaping was probably harder...but during the years Nancy and I have done all sorts of things to make it as natural a setting as possible....with lots of plants actually growing in containers in the pond.

As I mentioned, we have had Koi, but they do not weather the winters here very well (even with the heaters)...so we have subunkin and goldfish...although some of them are very decent sized fish.

The lines you see are to stop the herons and egrets from landing in the pond and turning it into a deli! (That has already happened before I installed the lines!)

I'd forgotten how beautiful Jersey could be. Thanks for the pleasant diversions, Frank.

Never knew you were a cat person.