I think it makes the park look like the Shady Acres Cemetery ©voyager, all rights reserved
Jack asked to go to the park this morning. He said something about smelling pee or leaving pee to smell, but I wasn’t really listening and I might have that wrong. Anyway, I couldn’t think of a reason not to go to the park, so we grabbed some water and off we went. We aimed ourselves toward the gazebo because I wanted to check out the progress of the renovation to the small pond. The city has had it walled off for weeks and I was very curious to find out what they were doing. Well, they’re finished, but….they removed the pond and replaced it with a rock. It’s a nice enough rock, I suppose. It’s big and it has burbling water at its head that cascades in a fake waterfall sort of way, but it looks to me as if it belongs in a cemetery and it won’t have fish or frogs or tadpoles. Damn.
I love water rocks…
I like the rock and water but that square surround is hideous.
Can’t have small children getting muddy, you know, what would their daft parents say if one fell in? Sad end to a pond full of diverse life.
The surround is the catch-basin for the water; it’s still a pond it’s just full of rocks.
There’s a Noguchi water rock at the Met in NYC that I love. [met]
Marcus,
The Noguchi water rock at the Met is beautiful. It’s in harmony with its surroundings and it has subtle grace.
The water rock at my park is also beautiful, but it doesn’t feel in harmony with its surroundings. I was used to a little pond full of life and the rock feels sterile to me and anything but subtle. It intrudes so far upwards. It was also a bit of a shock, so maybe it will grow on me.
Dogs have to go and check their wee mails! ;-)
Given the canine nose and its scent superpower it does make me wonder how much and what they can learn through their sniffings and what the world looks, well, smells like to them. Also given such a super-powerful sense of smell why would somebodies dogs or humans backside or croch be such a favourite thing to sniff! (Oka distinctive glands and all but still ..)
It’a a shame they made the catch-basin so stark and square, it could have been made a more gentle shape. The rock itself is lovely, but it does look somewhat incongruous with no other rocks around except the also obviously newly placed and completely different rocks behind it. Hopefully it will mellow somewhat.
A bit of Jack wee will help erode the corners off that thing.
I see what you mean. I think it’s a lovely rock, but it does look a bit out of place. Maybe if the catch-basin wasn’t filled with rocks (you know, a pond) and the rock was immersed a bit in water it would look more natural. Hopefully it will grow on you overtime.