Thanks to a two week visit from Texas relatives, the yard now has a new addition. A waterfall has been created near our driveway entrance. Tom's brother Charles helped line the stream from the upper pool with moss and rocks containing small pieces of tourmaline gathered from our mine. The granite shines in the sun reflecting spots of mica and bits of green and black tourmaline.
The water falls into a pool which will have water lilies and other water plants. When the pool spills
over, water runs over into an adjacent bog pool which will contain all kinds of bog plants gathered from our woods. We have 100 acres of woodland and several bogs.
There is much work to be done, but it will be a lovely addition to the landscape.
A visit to the Maine Coastal Botanical Gardens in Boothbay has added interest to more landscaping around the pool. We were so impressed with the one year old Coast garden that we signed up for a membership. We will visit there at least once a month until snow flies. You can visit on snow shoes, and we might do that sometime.
It is New England's largest botanical garden on 248 waterfront acres, beautiful gardens, waterfront trails and sculpture.
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Hello Auntie Maine, welcome to the blogging world. It sounds like you had a nice and productive visit with the fine folks from Texas. I hope you and our official Maine tour guide are doing well. Mom is doing O.K., slowing down quite a bit these days. My health continues
to improve. If you keep adding to the beauty around your place, they will soon classify it as a botanical garden. God Bless the both of you and take care.
Pictures and everything. I got the pictures in your e-mail and showed them to Bebe. Looks like the boys were in their element. We will look forward to viewing the new feature as soon as we can line ourselves up for a trip north.
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