Words cannot describe the beauty of it. And I kind of wish the Catholic Church had just left the bldg alone, and not move in a bunch of icons. I kind of feel the same way about the Hagia Sophia's being turned into a mosque in Instanbul. All the early Christian iconography and it's tured into a mosque.
So, this past winter really scuffed up the garden. Most of the plants are making a comeback, but some we had to replace. The area around the koi pond is looking pretty again: