This is a panorama of the pond taken while standing on the bench and looking down...
And of course...the day AFTER the walk I had a pond lily open!

I have over 40 varieties of pond plants and lilies...

Walking over to the house now...

A little colder...and in White!

From the rooftop...I'm getting dizzy....

On this foggy morning there was a beautiful mist rising from the pond.

So...now we will be heading down my "dock".  You see...originally, because the Fox River is on the OTHER side of the road...and I wanted a dock of my own...so...decided to make a dock and have it going over a DRY river bed for effect and landscaping.

  Well...after 3/4 of the digging, I thought as along as I'm doing all this digging to make a DRY river bed...why not make it WET?

Looking back to the house.

So...the creek idea was formed.  Then...to make it FLOW...needed a pond at the top and a pond at the bottom...and then had to get the water back up to the upper pond.  It was quite an evolution to where it is today!

And a little turn to the right!

The birds are waiting patiently
for me to go away....

Miniature purple Iris...

It's such a tiny Iris...

One of our garden residents.

I have a "Shower Frog" (hangs out in the outdoor shower) and a "Garage Frog" (hangs out around the garage door lite for the good eating at nite).
They return each year...must be in the genes by now!

And a little turn to the left.
So...on the next page...it's a panorama shot taken as I stood there...turning in a circle as I was taking the pics.

We are coming over to our breakfast nook now...smiles.

A nice place to enjoy our morning coffee...if you can keep the mosquitoes at bay...smiles.

What a nice place for breakfast!

Isn't it funny how these Hen's and Chicks
grew in a circle around this stone?
Must be like those crop circle things, eh?

Very nice place to relax and
listen to the water...

And...the ferns are higher than your waist!

Like the sign says...you might want to call before dropping in un-announced! 
I'm known as "That Naked Gardener Guy".  Smiles.

The lower pond.  The pump that makes this fountain work...also pumps water underground to the upper pond.

Entering the Hosta garden now...my Hosta collection numbers 248 now.

Did you know there are over 2000 varieties of Hosta?

And more Hosta...so many are still small...only a year old...and many have grown so big already.

So...we are at the end of the walk!

And...don't forget...

That's POISON IVY there on the right.

Smiles...

Well...I hope you enjoyed my walk as much as I enjoyed sharing my Secret Garden with you.

It was only a
"Brisk Stretch of the Legs"
as Maureen O'Hara said to John Wayne in "The Quiet Man"