A Disney-Inspired Water Feature for 2023? February 2023
One of the things that I've been chasing FOR YEARS in all three of our gardens (two of our own, one borrowed via my sister Vic/Equation Boy/Man when we lived there for two years) is a water feature. I've longed after one in various forms. Over the years, I've had two water features that managed to be planned, executed and maintained. But, each of them lasted for just one season. The first one was this three-tiered acrylic fountain that I had near our garden in our first house in Elmhurst. The birds loved it. But, it dried out rapidly. Then it cracked and was junk. The second one was this small wine barrel water 'feature' that we had in the borrowed garden/patio . It was an insert that wasn't quite the right size inside of a wine barrel planter from the hardware store. I've talked about adding some water - for both the visuals but also the sounds - many times. I included it on my 2022 to-do list and it was an item...