The Almighty Begins To Age

It has been a while. The Almighty Falls has made it through leaf season with minimal debris.

The sole offender was a Black Walnut tree. The leaf bits were one thing. The walnuts turned the water into a mighty strong looking tea.

It is going to be cut down soon, not because it turned my water brown, but because the dropping walnuts were not wedding friendly. No big loss. I was more worried about the allelopathy on the plants beneath. I could handle a few weeks of tea water.

The baby fishes have already doubled in size.

Most of the new plants inside the old walls have disappeared for the winter.

The rocks are clean. The spring keeps running. The Almighty Falls continues on operational overflow. The stream and pond construction was an engineering success.

But I am going to shut it down for the winter. When it gets cold enough these streams can become glaciers. I don't trust that the dry stack rock in the ten foot drop zone can handle that kind of icy pressure.

The pond will get an aerator to keep the water oxygenated and maybe keep it ice free. The pump will get pulled and stored away for the winter. I'll be able to walk the dry stream and pick out all the leafy debris.

Next spring it will be ready to turn quickly green. Not with algae hopefully. The pond itself is also planted.

By next fall the fishes will be a whole lot bigger.

I am the gardener who knows how to make rocks soften or even disappear.