Testimonials:

"A beautiful pond is the heart of a farm. A beautiful pond must have a distinctive form that reveals itself slowly after careful inspection. It must have soft curves edging this way and that, clear reflections from a weeping willow or tour and perhaps the clean image of a high bank mirrored on its surface - like that one, just over there. In the evening and the early morning, when the air is still, a pond should be mysterious with wisps of mist silently sliding across it, concealing the long, curling grasses that grow close to the water's edge.

"And a beautiful pond must have a small boathouse at one end that absolutely demands to be entered and inspected.

"We are lucky indeed. We have a pond quite like this. The reasons we have it, we are joyful to say, lies in our good fortune in finding John Pennington and asking him to put his genius to work once again."

Rowland Evans

Mr. Evans was a nationally syndicated columnist, author, and a host of CNN's interview program Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields.