Farm Pond V -- Lily Pads and Cattails, Ducks and Geese

The project gets bigger and bigger!

Wrapped up the cattails and installed them.

Figured I would need to drill holes in the "water" to get them to stand up.  Chose three different size bits to do it.  More later.

Saw a YouTube video about mixing green and yellow paint on a sheet of white paper to get some variability in the color of lily pads.  Seemed like a good idea, but if green paper is used to begin with, the white edges won't show.  After the earlier try with lily pads, decided to only use two size hole punches and cut "V's" only in the larger size.  Used white glue dabbed down with a toothpick and then picked the pads up with a pin/needle to transfer to the pond.

Also decided to move the ducks and geese away from the "shallow" end where the horse might come to drink and the boys would be fishing.  Decided not to use the duck with just a tail end showing since after a few minutes he would drown!  But to add a bit more color, amputated the legs from another non-white duck just to add some color.  He looks like he's leaning over to get an insect form a lily pad.  Used a tacky glue of sorts since it suggested re-positioning would be possible.

Now, back to the cattails.  The "water" drilled pretty easily but generated a significant amount of filings:

And here are the cattails installed.  No matter how much effort to keep the scale in mind, looks like the cattails are a bit tall!  But they do look pretty natural and not as "cookie cutter" as the commercial variety!  Note the yellow lily pad flowers; pretty good from a distance!?!?!?