Well, to go just a touch off topic here, I took a ride up to Waterford Garden again, I had received a nice gift card for Mother's Day. The Wisteria was in full bloom and looked just gorgeous. I wound up chatting with a nice lady who took my picture. I think my Lotus is still alive, just needs to be repotted, so I picked up this very cute Stone Fish instead of a new Lotus! In the meanwhile Klaus perched it at the edge of the pond.
This place has pretty Koi and in addition they rented out some space to a Japanese company selling beautiful Koi of all sizes. ( Some large specimen were a couple of 1000 bucks.) They had netting over their ponds so I never got really good pictures, but they were beautiful.