Garden visitor

Wet day today. Spotted this visitor outside our patio doors. Not here directly because of the pond, but I'm expecting frog spawn next spring.
It is a common frog (rana temporaria) identified thanks to Froglife.
You can record sightings at Frogwatch.

Started planting

Log pile using bits of the old apple tree from the garden. Greater pond sedge beyond the logs, iris setosa (purple) at the back, creeping Jenny at the edge of the pond. Purple loosestrife in the water at the back, golden striped rush in the water at the front, and umbrella flat sedge in front of the log pile.

First visitor

Amazingly, before the water had been there for 24 hours, I had a visit from a bright green dragonfly checking out the pond! I didn't manage to get a photo, but I'm pretty sure it was an emperor dragonfly (anax imperator).

I have a pond!

Not quite finished yet, but undoubtedly a pond.