The Secret Life of My Pond

I thought I understood my backyard pond. Then I got a trail camera.

I’ve wanted a pond since I was a little kid. I asked (and probably pleaded with) my parents for years to let me dig one in our yard but they wouldn’t allow it. I remember at one point trying to pitch a landscape design that involved flooding our entire yard and getting a fleet of small canoes that we could row to the front door. I think my dad said it w…