The Wondrous Dancing Fountains of Shaw
Sometimes - if you're lucky - you can see the Wondrous Dancing Fountains of Shaw at the intersection of 7th, Rhode Island and R Streets, NW DC. The geysers of fresh water have been a local phenomenon ever since the former Watha T. Daniels Library was torn down.
They spout up at random times through the little holes in the manhole covers, often to a height of 4' or more!
I call them 'Wondrous' because they make me wonder why there is fresh water coursing at such a rate, why no one has plugged it, and how much money and water is wasted by the Wondrous Dancing Fountains of Shaw. While I love my public fountains, this one is fed by a steady flow of fresh water, not recycled water. It is a waste of valuable water and money.
Anyway, here's a photo taken by Ed at the beginning of the Bingham Cup tournament in Dublin. So far this is the only photo of me from the tournament that I have ever seen. I somehow evaded the camera throughout the entire tournament. I'm so like a lady in this photo:
The menacing (looking) guy on the right is Pat. He makes pretty pictures and was our rugby mom throughout the tournament. Thanks Pat!
I will be heading south for the Labor Day weekend to Kiawah Island with Skip the Evil Veterinarian and his sidekick Harley the Malicious Mapmaker. I hope to take more pictures of alligators and see some new bird species. It will be another nice getaway from DC.
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one of these days that interesection is going to be swallowed by the earth.
Good job! Knees and ankles together!
Kiawah is loverly, but that whole gate thing just ruffles my populist/anarchist feathers. Do say hello to my native state just the same.
I'm assuming I must know Skip, given that I was on the board of LGVMA for 6 years, but I'm damned if I can figure out who he is.
I don't know how one crosses there legs like that.
Well I do . .but if I try it . . it's just painful . . ugh.
I'm just glad that awful brutalist Watha Daniel library is gone. Anything in its place will be an improvement.
As for the springs, they exist around the city in improbable locales, sometimes as water, other places as steam, including on the campus of American University and near the Old Executive Office Building on the 17th Street side.
I think the Shaw springs might have something to do with the tributaries and streams wiped out by the magnificient "L'Enfant Plan" for the city that managed to eliminate Tiber Creek, among other things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber_Creek