Showing posts with label fountain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fountain. Show all posts

Friday, March 8, 2013

Spring at Humayan's tomb

 It feels like spring at Humayan's tomb.  The water is running though the complex.
 The ceiling is freshly repainted.
And it's not meltingly hot....yet. 

Friday, March 30, 2012

Classic fountains

There are fountains in the Haus Khaz lake.
Or the remains of fountains.

"Look," I said to my friend, "It looks like a sunken boat."
"With water shooting out of it?" she queried.
It was odd, I admit.

As we walked all the way around the lake, we came across several that had been pulled out of the water. The remains of something called "classic fountains". And they did resemble boats.

There were others that were still afloat in the water, too, though not working.

The whole lake, it seems, is kind of a mess, as if no one has cared about it for a long while.
It has potential, but it's a long ways from its heyday at the time of Firoz Shah.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

City of fountains

I saw a sign at the Kansas City airport when we arrived that said, "City of Fountains".
I made up my mind right then to look out for fountains. And I did see a number of them.

Some were kind of odd.
As in: what is this guy doing to the horse? And why capture that in statue form?

Giant spitting fish aren't exactly common either.

I would be less surprised to find Zeus if this was Europe and not the midwest, Lewis and Clark territory. But okay, maybe a city full of fountains needs to come up with more ideas than the average city with fountains.

Anyhow, it makes for a fun treasure hunt.