My mom at my largest pond.

This is what the hole looked like when I finished digging.  Click for a larger version.  As you can see, the design is more organic than the Begoon pond.

Here's the pond after the liner was installed and it was filled with water.  I hadn't put any rocks around the edge yet because I didn't have a way of transporting rocks from the creek bed where I get rocks.

This is what the pond looked like after 3 years of maintenance.  The grass had grown around the edge by this time and the pond looks almost complete.  The only thing that hasn't finished growing is the creeping  Juniper on the "mountain" behind the pond.

You can see the junipers more clearly in this picture.  They should cover the "mountain" in a few years.  I will not consider this pond to be complete until that happens.

This is an aerial view of the pond. I wanted to know what the pond looked like from above, so one day I climbed up in a tree and took a picture.  This photo has been edited with Photoshop.  In reality there is less grass around the pond, but this is the amount of grass I plan to have in the future.

After you feed fishes long enough, they get used to people and they become "friendly."  If you stick your finger in the water they will come up to your finger and start nibbling.

Here's a pic of the almost finished version.  It should look natural once it has matured a few more years and the junipers grow more.