MyVelleity~ photoblog

“This morning a Light man visited the Springs where the little rock summer house will soon have a fountain playing in its center. The place itself is cer­tainly very pretty, but the addition of a fountain with the many colored rays of the sun shining upon it, produced by the painted glass at the top, will enhance its beauty.”

~ San Antonio Light, May 5, 1885

Today, this fountain supplies moisture for maiden­hair fern and lichen that grow in the rock crevices. A small rock-lined canal encircling the building carries the waste water to one of the park’s many ditches.

Read all about the History of San Pedro Park

~ by myVelleity on June 27, 2010.

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