Now this is a fountain!

I saw this fancy fountain on West Sixth the other day. It would be quite an addition to a back yard!

Lone Star 360

Our home viewed from the Lone Star Fountain at Auditorium Shores.

Sea Horses

I'm surprised that I can't find a more conventional view of the Littlefield Fountain at the University of Texas that we've shown here on the blog. Maybe it was just too obvious. Here's one from Wikipedia. But I like this close-up from the back that shows clearly that the horses are half horse, half giant fish. I'm not sure I understand the relevance in a memorial to the 'Great War' (WWI), but it is dramatic. This fixture on the UT campus is over seventy years old.

A Fine Winter Day

Yep. This picture was taken Sunday. It looks like January in another hemisphere. But, no, it was Austin. And just last Sunday. This pool and fountain beside Lady Bird Lake at Auditorium Shores attracted this couple and its share of birds and a bird dog (it's an off leash area) to chase them. Today is the first of the month and theme day on City Daily Photo. The theme is fountains and so we've used the spraying water as the foreground for this couple. Before you move here...it just rained over night, winds of 50 MPH and above and now the temperature is 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

Art on Great Streets

Austin's Great Streets project expands sidewalks, includes seating, trees with lights, room for outdoor cafe tables, etc. And in the last couple of weeks this interesting fountain (and a bench in a similar style) has been installed on Second Street. It will probably grow on us. When I went over to take a picture, a fellow was lounging on the bench and he said "It's here to stay now." We wondered if he was the artist.

State Architecture

Near the warehouse district is a state office building (The Hobby Building). There is this strange fountain there. I can't decide if it is pleasant or looks like Soviet architecture. While it vaguely reminds me of some soulless public areas in apartment sprawls that I saw in Russia and East Berlin, if it were there the pond would be empty and the concrete cracked. Plus the relentless geometry ends up working somehow here. And it is well-maintained with allegedly free market tax dollars.