Great pictures Bonnie, my pads are dwindeling down, went out today and cut off a bunch more, do have a few buds on the way up, but the pads are mainly the little pilot type that never surface. Looks pretty empty, would love to throw a few fish in the lily pond, but it's not netted and the 2 wayward babies that got in most likely as eggs through the overflow from the main pond got taken by the *%# Devil Bird that also got all the goldfish in the little pond
. It really wants to get in the main pond but that's netted, has a scarecrow and multiple traps set to slow it down or scare it off.