Tuesday night I had to go on a small adventure (details will be provided in some future LJ post). I’d already picked a destination, but after talking to Lindsey, I changed my mind.
I’ve mentioned the dandelion fountain on LJ before. Though I’ve admired it for many years and I always point it out to visitors, I’ve never actually stopped and seen the fountain up close and personal. Lindsey suggested it as the ideal spot for what I needed, so off I went. Tom and the girls went with me, because Tom’s always ready for adventure that doesn’t involve anyone losing a kidney.
Close up, I love the fountain even more. I think that being remembered with a fountain and a little park area would be a nice legacy*.
Margot and Guinness had a great time, and everyone arrived home with their kidneys intact.
*Edit: Of course, he also built a huge corporation and has a Houston performing arts center named for him, too.
Oooooooo!!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Very pretty!
When you drive by in the day, it’s fun to see dogs jumping in and out of it.
So beautiful. It looks better at night, in your photo, than in the link’s daytime one, to me.
It does look like a dandelion. Is that a fond nickname from Houstonites? : )
It’s actually common throughout the U.S. I didn’t know that until I began researching this particular fountain a long time ago. Now I don’t remember what I used to call it.
Check out google images for dandelion fountain. They rock.
While I do that, is he the one The Wortham Center Fountain is named after, the one where you and Lindsey took photos a while back? I like that fountain, too.
Yup.
And now I’m finding dandelion fountains throughout the world. This is now somehow going in the next Coventry book.
Yeah! I just did Google images, and they’re lovely, and everywhere. It’s like a hidden code for peace and beauty. : )
when you say the next Coventry book, are you talking about the Beatles Coventry Book, or will there be a 3rd Dandelion Coventry book?
I think the Beatles Coventry book. One of my characters needed some punching up and I think dandelion fountains are going to fix that problem.
what about the Guinea hens????
Shhhh, don’t give away the whole plot: Guinea hens take over Coventry until someone drowns them in a dandelion fountain. While Beatles music plays.
Wow, that is really beautiful! I’ll bet it’s mesmerizing in person. 🙂
Fountains are in general to me. I really liked this one a lot. It was noisy in a good way–that is, it blocked out city noise. Very soothing.
Wow, I have never seen anything like it. It’s so unusual and fun. I love that dogs can play in it, too.
Thanks Becky.
You’re welcome. Officially, they probably aren’t supposed to play in it, but golden retriever + water? Good luck, mean anti-dog people.
What a very cool fountain!!
Uhhhh…
I love this fountain!
😉
You think I’m a big dork, don’t you? 😉
BTW, there was no one at the fountain, but there were some couples sort of strolling around the park. As I was finishing my mission, one couple came up to ask what I was doing and thought it was pretty cool. People are so funny.
You couldn’t possibly be a bigger dork than I. Admit it, you laughed…
I told you no one was going to think you were crazy. The ‘Trose rules that way. And yay! No doggie interruptions!
Yes, I totally cracked up.
Awesome photos, Becky! I currently pass the fountain every morning. Three nights ago, someone sudsed it. The fountain was brimming and overflowing with bubbles two mornings ago, and there were residual bubbles yesterday morning. I’m glad they cleared out by the time you went to snap shots of it.
I bubbled a fountain only once in my wild youth and it didn’t bubble very well. I wasn’t very adept at toilet papering people’s yards, either. I think I was meant to perpetrate crimes only of the heart.
Super Soaker water gun + Mr. Bubble bubble bath = best way to suds a fountain.
…not that I would know or anything. 😉
Genius!
LOL, I edited that THREE times. Did you get all of them via e-mail?
Yep, I sure did. 🙂
That’s the downside of this wonderful feature.
Oddly, it’s the SAME downside to deleting then reposting a corrected reply. Hmm…
True, that.