Reminiscing about the Back Pond, Part 1
July 16, 2023
The Back Pond at Schoepfle Garden was long a favored spot to take photographs. That changed when the park people installed an aerator in the pond. Whereas before I photographed the water sometimes still, sometimes rippled by the wind, after the aerator, the pond surface remained in continuous disturbance. I have grown nostalgic for the good old days when the face of the pond changed with the weather. The last few days I have looked through my catalog to find old and new favorite reminders of what used to be. I found too many photographs for one blog post. The next post will show more-abstract photographs of the pond surface.
1 In early April 2017 I took what I didn’t know would be the last photograph of the pond without an aerator.
2 Sixteen days later, this is how the pond looked.
3 I took the rest of these photographs between 2002 and 2015.
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