Water fountains and more...

Every year I make this promise to myself - "Myself," I say, "if you keep that water fountain clean and clear all year, I'll build you a nice water fall and fountain next spring." Well, as you may have guessed we are still without the beautiful, cascading trickle of water with a clear pool of rippling waves at the bottom. No lily pads. Cute little toads still await, eager adventurers, looking for a cool place to meditate on the happiness of life. It is but a desert oasis with the exception of the cooling water - more like a mirage in fact.
This year was going to be different. I was going to stay the course and, like the boy amid the burning wreck, never leave my post come Helen, Lucy or high water. Alas, I have failed again. With a couple of full weeks; (a friend's wedding, our harvest, and struggling with hordes of weeds) the green algae and limpid strands of grossness still abound. Due to mass protest against showing improper content, I will not show pictures that would most certainly give nightmares to the young and blot the happiness of the old.
Instead I will show the cleaned out, sparkling fresh fountain. Yes, I have done my penance and brought it back to its former glory. Try not to notice the mounds of weeds or the unkempt border; just bask in the clean, cool, refreshing splash and hear the bubbling and gurgling trickle of water. (also look for that brash young hummingbird that came in for a photo op and tried to steal the show)

And so now I tell myself, "Myself, there is always next year. If you keep the fountain clean..."