Closer to the heart of the grove sprawled a wondrous garden and its placid pond, and within these areas stood Genna's simple cottage.

Gurgling streams and placid ponds serve as the backdrop for idyllic gardens.

He looked at his reflection in the placid pond, saw his shirt and face covered with gore.

Continuing on Tioga Rd soon drops you at Tenaya Lake, a placid pond framed by pines and granite cliffs.

They followed the bank to the right for a quarter of a mile, at which point the waters spilled down in a foaming amber cataract into a placid pond half a mile across.

The trail continued beside the river, which at intervals widened into placid ponds reflecting weeping willows and reeds.

But the deep green shade and the dark, placid pond were working their magic.

Even the lesser poems here can flash like a fish out of a placid pond.

The boat floated into a placid pond, surrounded by reed-thatched cottages on stilts under the ouinga trees.

In their dancing "Kakuhihewa," a story of love unfolds through descriptions of scenic beauty - a swaying tree, a placid pond or an ohialehua flower coming into blossom.