Some neighbors of ours on the island have a creek behind them and a little pond and hundreds of NW native plants and a little coy pond. It is an absolute deligh

Some neighbors of ours on the island have a creek behind them and a little pond and hundreds of NW native plants and a little coy pond. It is an absolute delight to visit any time of the year, it teems with bees in the summer and still does lovely things in the winter. Now mind you there is no HOA, just the city, but the city is so happy they are maintaining it so. I love seeing that, I'll take that any time over the desert of the flat green grass...