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As the current recession has worked its way through the marketplace, I’ve found that, with increasing consistency, our projects fall neatly into two categories. On the one hand are the grand-scale projects we do mostly for wealthy people – ambitious designs that see us cover large areas with tons of rock, extensive plantings and complex hydraulic systems.  While these jobs have dropped off somewhat, it’s our observation that people with money can still afford to buy what they want and that this high-end business has never really gone away.   On the other are more modest designs for people who want some form of water in their lives but are working with limited budgets and, often, with compact available spaces.  In fact, these systems can be minuscule, all very simple, some without any pond component at all and many ensconced in places where