PRESIDENT OF AQUASCAPE COLLEEN HEITZLER I
n 2002, about one year after I started working at Aquascape, a Pondless® Waterfall and stream was installed at my house by about 70 contractors on a Build- a-Pondless®
Waterfall
seminar. At the time, my kids were 6, 4 and 2 years old and it immediately became the center point of our backyard. The kids always wanted to be near it, the neighbors loved it and Bob and I have loved relaxing by it since the day the waterfall was turned on.
In the early morning it’s my “quiet time” spot. During breakfast, we watch the birds bathe and the squirrels scamper around the
CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER ED BEAULIEU T
he feeling ... Priceless!!! It's like trying to describe a day of fishing and not catching a thing but loving it! It’s like … A day at the beach reading a book and listening to the waves ... Sitting on a dock at sunset with friends and family ... Hiking up a mountain stream looking for the headwaters, experiencing unique vistas around each bend of the stream ... Kids catching frogs and asking me about dragonfly naiads ... The shimmer and reflection of the evening sun on my ceiling ... The summer breeze blowing through my bedroom window carrying with it the music of cascading water ...
or throw some of the rocks. When it gets hot outside they love to put their swim trunks on and climb in the water garden and slide
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ground cover. In the daytime, the kids are never far from it; setting up army men, action figures, Barbie dolls, and buckets of water ... the list goes on and on. Our neighbor boy (mildly autistic) would wander from his house and sit by the stream for hours … literally.
Now my children are 15, 13 and 10. The army guys and the dinosaurs are a fond memory of younger years. As a growing family, we find ourselves gathering for dinner
near the stream, and we seem to be in less of a hurry to jump up from the table to clean up and move on to what … the TV? Yikes! We’ve added a new stone patio and a fire pit to
increase the backyard enjoyment. And as we lay down to sleep at the end of the day, we open the windows of our master bedroom to let in the soothing sound of the stream. There’s really not a time of day that we don’t interact with and love our stream. I can’t imagine my backyard or my house without it.
VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT JEFF PAYTON
think our pond gets used by my kids more than their swing set does! The first thing they do when they go in the backyard is run over to the pond to check on the fish, find frogs
down the big smooth rock on the waterfall. My favorite time to enjoy my pond is when it gets dark outside and the lights come on. The fish seem to be more active when the lights illuminate everything in the water.
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