Rain Garden

Our neighborhood has something really annoying about it.  We were given a grant by the county to make our neighborhood a "low impact development".  I'm all about helping the environment (we recycle!), but what exactly does "love impact development" mean?  To me it just means that we don't have sidewalks (this is a very sore subject with me) and we have weird rain gardens all over our neighborhood.  We have a large rain garden in our backyard that hasn't been kept up.  That's another weird thing, there is confusion about who takes care of these weird rain gardens.  Anyways, apparentely our rain garden was done wrong and so they are fixing ours.  Here's what we've been seeing all week.

And after a bunch of rain, we have a rain POOL! 

I sure hope when they are all done our rain garden turns out pretty!  I'll let you know!