Thanks boxofrox! I assume you designed and made the gate also?!

Quite a clever way to hide the cyclone. It's the best I've ever seen and something I will keep in mind for future projects.

One more question: what is that beautiful vine to the right of the gate?

Yes, I made it out of 1" copper. I hunted around to find the wrought iron center piece and then designed the gate around it. Even the hinges are copper with ball bearings pressed into the fittings.

The vine is actually the shrub rose 'Lyda Rose' that I am slowing adapting to the space. It was stunning last year and a welcome fragrant entrance to my pond/rock garden.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:23153}}

Its funny that when I opened the photo I had a flashback to a posting of a very cool trellis. I did not understand what made me thik of it. It took me a minute to connect the copper on the fence to that trellis flashback.

Were the seventies rougher on me than I thought, or was there a posting of the rellis in the past?

Yes and yes but it was groovy and farout ~@^@~