Welcome to 2006

2006; was a wet and frustrating year, I lost almost 2 months because of bad weather, and that's a lot if you only have 7 good months to work with to start with.

Rebuilt a "tiny" (for me) waterfall into a pool;

Also I had to re-surface a front step:

with ledge-rock giving it the old fashioned look!

All the rain doesn't help, except for the planting, I'm about a month behind! and I'll never catch up!

building a screen in a forest:

St Lazare

Building a mountain:

follow the winding road

This is a weekend job so it moves along slowly....rocks for the back wall, some the size of my truck!

with all this rain things had come to a halt, we had to wait until the soil dried out, or else we would destroy the soil structure. Now building the stream, 2 pumps will be used to supply the water flow.

coming along

slow but sure, we borrowed the bring from the pond for the photos

next weekend we build a new bridge and add plants

the sound is soooo soothing, with plants you just want to hang around.

Next the gazebo, which is be built on top of the hill.

Baie D'Urfé

A large water feature beside a new pool;

before, the customer had tried to build it himself, but the liner has to under the rocks to make it work.

Photoshop worked photo to show how it could look;

So we had to tear it apart and rebuild; a waterfall with a pond and a bog.

Here you can see the echo chamber:

again, I also had to build a small mountain behind it to justify having a waterfall and stream

building the stream above the waterfall;

I use 2x8 to frame the stream;

what it looks like from a distance;

Next we enlarge the pond on the other side;

But the customer puts a wrench in the works, they want to increase the size of the patio between the pool and the pond. That means getting large heavy flat rocks (for stability) and building a wall (for security) in the water. You will get the feeling that the water flows under you. This side of the pond is more than 4.5 feet deep. He wants to snorkel in it!