Liquidsquid I think nature shapes you as it does me. I started with a clean pond that I could cast for fish without any obstructions and my own swimming pool, but now I have something completely different. I have planted fruits and nuts like black walnuts, silk leaf dogwoods etc. for the birds and animals but some of the food is naturally there like raspberries, blackberries and mulberries. Much of what I expected to happen doesn't, like putting up a bat house, Martin house and Wood Duck house and not getting anything, and putting up Blue bird houses and getting Tree Swallows, while something as simple as a 10 foot patch of American Elodea, has up to three turtles in it and half a dozen frogs everyday when I walk past it. I am amazed at the different kinds of bugs I see when wading the pond. A few days ago I saw a pure white spider with the shape of the black widow. I wished I had my camera. About the time I think I have something figured out in nature, I don�t.
