So…my bright idea for Roxanne’s Turtle Power Spa and Wellness Centre was to paint it, and use landscape foam to make a ramp. It looked okay.

However, the paint didn’t last (I figured that, but had to try), and the foam didn’t want to stay down, so I had to go “quick and dirty” with some 4 mil black plastic. It ain’t pretty, but this is just my test pool to see whether water for boxies is worth the destruction it will receive from the stupid trash pandas.

Now…some friends. Bebe bugs; most likely coreids.

Pretty Eastern Tiger lady, enjoying coneflower.

Cletus lives! Well, I think this is the missus, but at least I know the bullfrogs haven’t driven all of the southern leopards out of the pond.

One poppy. This is from the “floor sweepings” mix I got as a freebie for the “save the bees” thing that Vesey’s did last spring. I just put them in the ground to see what was in the mix, not because the half dozen flowers I actually got would be useful to actual bees.

I have two kinds of gaillardia. The normal one…

The ones with the funky petals are called ‘Fanfare’.

Trumpet creeper is starting to climb the osage-orange–YAAAYYY!