Turtles all the Way Down

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Bill Chance

“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever, ” said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

Audubon Park, New Orleans
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Audubon Fountain

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Bill Chance

Audubon Park, New Orleans

“i see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
they are small, and the fountain is in France
where you write me that last letter and
I answered and never heard from you again.
ANGELS AND GOD, all in uppercase, and you
knew famous artists and most of them
were your lovers, and I wrote back, it’s all right,
go ahead, enter their lives, I’m not jealous
because we’ve never met. we got close once in
New Orleans, one half block, but never met, never
touched. so you went with the famous and wrote
about the famous, and, of course, what you found out
is that the famous are worried about
their fame- not the beautiful young girl in bed
with them, who gives them that, and then awakens
in the morning to write upper case poems about
ANGELS AND GOD.”
—-An Almost Made Up Poem, Charles Bukowski

Audubon Park, New Orleans
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Man on Bench

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Bill Chance

Plaza in front of City Hall, Dallas, Texas

Dallas City Hall Plaza
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Seahorse, Giving You the Stinkeye

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Bill Chance

Fair Park, Dallas, Texas

Galatyn Park Fountain

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Bill Chance

Another photo I took as part of the Bicycle Friendly Richardson – bike photo scavenger hunt – Bicycle Ride and Seek.

This is the fountain at Galatyn Park.

Fountain at Galatyn Park, Richardson, TX
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Fountain

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Bill Chance

City Park, New Orleans

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Water, Metal, and Fire

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Bill Chance

Fair Park, Dallas, Texas

Fountain/Sculpture

“The Gulf Cloud”
Erected 1916
In Memory of
Captain Sydney Smith
First Secretary State Fair of Texas
From 1886 to 1912
Designed by Miss Clyde Chandler
Sculptress

The bronze fountain sculpture is an allegorical composition that depicts four female figures representing the four geographic areas of Texas –the Gulf, the Coastal Plains, the Table Lands and Mountains of West Texas, and the Gulf Breeze. The Gulf lies against the feet of the Coastal Plains who rests in the lap of the Table Lands, while the Gulf Breeze brings nourishing rains to the State. The bottom of the sculpture is encircled with a granite relief depicting a garland of fruit, flowers, grain, and vegetables grown in Texas. The sculpture rests in the center of a circular fountain basin.