Last week we were in Las Vegas where my DH had the opportunity to take 2 work related courses. When he was in his courses I explored the Las Vegas Strip and went shopping, of course, taking lots of pictures along the way. Here are 3 pictures I took that had leading lines in them. The first is at the Wynn hotel. The grass-like plants on the sides of the paths were not daylilies (shucks) but some sort of grass. This one was taken by the Excalibur Hotel. I love all the pansies that were planted along the path. This was taken when I was exploring the Tropicana Hotel pool area... I just have to throw these two pictures in. They are taken at the Wynn Hotel where it must be easier to plant and mow carpet than real grass. My DH didn't think that we should do that on our lawn here on the acreage. :) We left when the weather was hovering around 0C and I could still see green grass on my lawn. When we got back the temps had gone to -32C windchill and 6" of snow on my lawn. Brings me back to reality really quickly!! Brenda

That is so pretty. I've tried growing columbine before but our climate must not be right for it- Georgia. Or else I just didn't know how to do it.

Very nice- what is depicted on the wall behind the canon?

I have a SunTouch and it is programmed almost identically to what you're describing. I do not have a spa, but the SunTouch is programmed so that selecting "spa" actuates one valve and ramps up the pump speed to full. The valve diverts water to our waterfalls and grotto. Hit the off button and it switches the valve back and resumes whatever program it was running (if any). We also have a slide and we used the 2nd actuator to control that. If we hit the slide button it diverts some of the waterfall water to the slide. We have the other two circuits set up for low speed filtration and for cleaning. We use a QuickTouch controller which is a simple on/ off controller about the size of a keychain, it can manually turn on/ off any of the 4 circuits. Each circuit is also programmable, so you say you're not going to run the waterfall on a program but you could if you wanted to (IE, run it at night to cool the pool down if it's getting too hot). We also have an SWG hooked into the SunTouch, you can program it to generate chlorine (or not) and designate the percentage for each circuit. So for example you can set it to run at 40% during filtration and 0% during cleaning. It all works amazingly well considering the cheap price of the SunTouch!