No water features -- too many mosquitoes. Too much work to upkeep!
I'm going for something like
this.
I have a friend in the area who's a master gardener. I will be asking her to come over sometime in the next month or so -- but I didn't want to wait that long before I started work. I need to get moving on cleaning up all the fallen leaves and branches from the winter.
She's also much more interested in vegetables than ornamentals. Right now, I'm only planning to plant a few herbs.