*Sigh*

Sharing

I made the mistake of mentioning that I have a blog to a couple of people. I should have been less specific perhaps saying 'I like to write.' Naturally some general questions were asked about the blog; what it is about, the blogs location etc. In fear, I immediately removed some posts and began writing in Word. I wanted to use this as a medium to talk about my interests, the things going on in my life and other miscellaneous musings. I also thought it would be a good opportunity to practice my writing. I like writing, at least at did in law school although I was never pleased with my work. The blog appeals to me as a simple and (potentially) aesthetically pleasing way to write however, I have to reconcile the desire to use the blog with my desire to preserve my privacy. In other words, I want to use this rather public way of sharing information as privately as possible.

So, I suppose I will see how it goes. I guess what I post will depend on what exactly it is I am writing about. The handy stat counter should be useful. I suppose it's ironic, and um, perhaps not-so-smart that I would use something like this to write about my thoughts when I often find it difficult to discuss the same things with people, but that is a topic for another post and really concerns the concept of trust and friendship rather than that of privacy.

Swimming Ponds

To diverge from general moanings. Swimming ponds are highly cools things. The basic idea is to create a swimming space with clean, low nutrient water using plants. Swimming ponds use two pools- one being the swimming area the other the vegetative region, where water from the 'pool' is circulated. The pools are not totally separate in the most common designs a wall exists between the two with a 10cm or so gap below the surface of the water throught which the water can flow into the regenerative pond.
Swimming ponds are not common. I've only found a smattering of information on the web, none from north america- some from england and german sites. Swimming ponds are becoming popular in germany and austria but as I mentioned nearly unheard of outside of that.
However there was an excellent article in the Royal Horticultural Society's - Garden - magazine, July 2005 issue. Also in my links section is an english website of some landscape architects that construct swimming ponds.

Check out the article and website(s). The Garden magazine in particular is a good overview and gets into the sorts of plants and construction you would need for a thing like this.

For plant and water lovers, a perfect combination that is also self sustaining and environmentally beneficial!