Cleaning the Balboa Park Pond
On a recent trip to the park, I ran across these guys carefully picking the dead leaves out of the water. It was actually kind of mesmerizing, watching them slowly weave through the water, pluck-pluck-plucking, then weaving away again, winding around the pool.I never thought about the fact that you'd have to have someone going through there once in a while to keep it nice! Who knew?!
posted by at Thursday, October 01, 2009
5 Comments:
Beautiful shot. Love the image, the figure in the water, the ripples, those gorgeous archways in the background. Stunning.
I didn't. Keeping the pond free of leaves seems like an impossible task.
Thanks, Jilly - I've had it for a while. I've held off on using it here because the landscape isn't lined up right (makes me feel like I'm falling off the page to the right). lol.
I just came out of the garden where I was in my pond cleaning the spent water lily leaves. And I had to trim out a very spiny aroid. It's nice to see such a large pond like yours. Sometimes doing the dirty work makes my pond just as nice as a really great pond like the one you showed me. Thank you for the view.
I thought they just drained it and cleaned it once a year. I've been returning to this pond since the 1940's, and this is the first time I have ever seen anyone skimming leaves off the bottom.
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