I'm new to garden web as well (and pretty new to gardening in general); I'm in Wilmington, NC. Any other Wilmingtonians?

This is the miyoshi lantern i made out of concrete. I made a wooden form waited 6 hours and took it off and carved in the japanese characters...Better then paying appox. 500 bucks for it.Still need to take out the wood block and make a window for it along with a ligt fixture for it
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Hi Brian!

I love your miyoshi lantern, and enjoyed looking at your photo album! I spent seven years in Japan. Your pictures brought back lots of memories. GREAT Job, and thank you for serving this great nation! God bless you and your family!

SaratogaJean
I'm in Greenville/Winterville area. Moved from western NY. Are you from Saratoga NY??

I did this one mostly for the little ones so they can plant there own flowers,veggies and fruit.
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This is going to be the tusukubai w/basin. This will be the location but just need to fingd the right rocks to put there. I had these rocks around and just used them as a reference

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