This fountain is on campus at work, and one morning I caught a nice rainbow in it! Not bad for a phone-camera-photo.
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Scene in Spain, #21
In Ponferrada, like all the other places we visited in Spain, there are lovely details at the center of roundabouts. The ever-present fountain, of course:
But there was this incredibly cool sculpture near our hotel:
The “film” is metal and the scenes are made by metal strips being bent to make the appropriate shadows. It’s so impressive – and each is a work of art in its own right.
Scene in Spain, #7
The architecture and fountains were especially lovely at night, and I was fortunate to get a few decent pictures.
This is the outside of our hotel. Those arches are our room!
Scene in Spain, #6
We went walking in another direction, rather randomly, in Madrid. We ran into one of many many roundabouts with fountains. This one featured Neptune and I waited and timed the photo to get it without cars. I’m rather pleased by that.
Across the street from Neptune there was a shop ostensibly selling art, but that art looked a lot like tacky souvenirs to us. However, we enjoyed the storefront with all the statues watching the people walking by (if I knew how to stitch this into one long shot I would – you’ll have to do that mentally):
Scene in Spain, #3
Walking on from the monument to Alphonso XII, we found this fountain. I never have figured out its significance, but we liked it. (Not so much that we’d want it at home, but in a nice-to-see-on-vacation way….)
Scene while walking: November 25, 2013
Technically this could be part of last week’s San Francisco series, because I did see this while I was out and about walking there. But it’s not that this was in San Francisco – it’s that this was something beautiful that caught my eye while I was out for a walk. I see so many people out walking but with their eyes on their phone or with headphones on and not really looking at the world around them. I think those people probably don’t always notice the random lovely things around them. I do know that at least one person stopped momentarily as I took this photo wondering if this was some landmark. If it is, I don’t know that. I just know I thought it was a beautiful fountain and I wanted to share it with you.
Scene while walking; August 16, 2013
At work there is a large pond area with fountains that provides a heat-sink for the HVAC systems of nearby buildings. It also provides a waystation for a lot of geese. On this hot day, the geese were swimming under the fountains to stay cool (I presume) and we all enjoyed a rainbow together.
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