Eight years of work is plenty of time to spend on any one nature project so these pictures are of my final visit to the pond and this will be my last post. It was a great adventure for several of those years, but now it just seems like more yard work and I'm not interested in labor for its own sake. I'm going to leave the blog because it's like a good book that others might be interested in (five years of pictures and personal observations), and I hope the pond is stable enough to maintain itself for many more years because the local wildlife has become so dependent on the water and plant life.