During winter the waterfall slows down.  At the time this photograph was taken (Fall) it was flowing at it's summer rate.  It slows down in the winter because Janice doesn't want to get in the pond to clean the filters.  Can't blame her!  But the benefit is the plants die back a bit in winter so we can actually see the waterfall from the kitchen door.  The place is hard to photograph any time of year.  During summer it is so heavily overgrown you have to look for it just to see the water, even with 3,000 gallons an hour flowing into the pond.  But you can hear the pleasant sounds of cascading and splashing water anywhere in the atrium.  If you look closely you can see tropical moss growing on some of the wet rocks.  The moss was sent to us by a friend in Hawaii and was collected from a small waterfall there.  The water rushing over the rocks creates high humidity throughout the atrium which the plants love.  And since I love the tropics, so do I!

Tree frogs love to hid in the rocks of the waterfall.  The photo can take you to the frogs.