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Showing posts with label fountains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fountains. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 March 2021

MAR 28, 21 .. SAINT PATRICK'S DAY AT FOUNTAIN HILLS, ARIZONA

 Fountain Hills, Arizona, is located on the extreme North Eastern edge of the greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Let's see how a Google Map link will look. Fountain Park is to the upper right in the below map. 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fountain+Hills,+AZ+85268/@33.4364635,-112.25164,10z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x872b989061a57cd1:0xbeacef3478713137!8m2!3d33.6042079!4d-111.7256936

To say that Fountain Hills, Arizona, is an exclusive town would be quite an understatement. I imagine the average income of its residents is quite significant. 

I don't know which came first, Fountain Hills or THE Fountain. Probably they arrived at the same time, back in December of 1970, because it appears to be a well designed and very modern community.

And, out there in the small lake, is THE Fountain during its idle period awaiting the top-of-the-hour to erupt. It normally goes off at the-top-of-the-hour and erupts for fifteen minutes.

And ERUPT it certainly does. Please notice that the water is usually white in color as you see below.

Below are a few facts about THE Fountain.

Please don't strain your eyes trying to read the fine print in the below photo. Immediately following it you will find a close-up photo of the details of THE Fountain.


Every Saint Patrick's Day, once at 12 o'clock noon, and once at 5pm in the late afternoon, THE Fountain erupts for forty five minutes and spouts green water. It is quite a sight and draws a nice crowd.

Another look at its normal color. 

In the below photo, it is a little difficult to see, but the fountain is just beginning to turn green.

I promised myself that I would NOT make the following disclaimer at the beginning of this Post.

IF you get tired, or even bored at looking at the below fifteen (15) photos, please realize that I snapped one hundred and twenty nine (129) photos during this photo shoot. So I am not posting anything even close to all of the photos that I snapped on Saint Patrick's Day.

Here we go. 

SAINT PATRICK'S DAY 2021















And, in the final photo below, THE Fountain appears to be in the process of ending its once-a-year green color.


It was one grand day.

Smiles Cap and Hugs from Patti.

Monday, 28 October 2019

OCT 28, 19 .. IRKUTSK .. TRUD STADIUM

Here we are, back in Irkutsk, my 'home base' for the nine plus months that I spent in Russian Siberia. Patti was with me for almost five of those months (mid February to early July 2019) and we two have shared many happy and pleasant memories of our visit. Trud Stadium and its fountain are among them.

I wrote a review of it for Trip Advisor.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g298527-d10418726-r685867859-Sports_Palace_Trud-Irkutsk_Irkutsk_Oblast_Siberian_District.html

We'll begin with a look at the very pleasant fountain that fronts Trud Stadium.

Trud Stadium is on Lenin Street a main thoroughfare and we saw it almost daily as we passed it riding the Number 1 Tram.




What a difference it is to see Trud Stadium in the summer months as compared to the winter months when the fountain is not in use.








One of the ticket offices.


As is the case with many public facilities here in Russia that I have visited, Trud Stadium is clean to the point of being immaculate.








The Russians like and participate in a wide range of sporting activities so it did not surprise me that their sporting stadiums and arenas are state-of-the-art.

Cap and Patti


Thursday, 4 July 2019

JUL 4, 19 .. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY TO ALL OF YOU ..

Patti and I are enjoying our 4th of July here in Irkutsk as we prepare to fly to Hong Kong tomorrow, Friday the 5th.

We thought that you'd like to see what some of the children here in Irkutsk, Russian Siberia, are doing on THEIR 4th of July.












The fountains here in Irkutsk are not just for children.

Oh no.

Below are some fountains where the adults go to see their sporting events.





 




HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE ..

Patti and Cap