Water Feature Frustration

This past week has been frustrating. We had to remove more dirt both to allow enough depth for the gravel base for the paving stone and to fine tune the slope. There's hardly enough room in our driveway for the stone, the dirt, and a narrow path to our kitchen door. I can't stand all that dirt being tracked in, we need to fill up those beds!

While it's nice to see the pathways more clearly defined, we've been searching online and visiting every nursery in the Portland Metro area for a fountain, pond, bubbling rock, bamboo contraption, or overflowing pot. While we still don't know exactly what we want, we decided to go custom and make a diamond-shaped pool that extends above ground. Maybe it will stay as a pool, maybe we'll add a water spitter of some kind, I don't know. But we found some bluestone in brick-sized shapes at a different stone yard that I hope will look good.