Fountain addendum

Danes seem to like fountains as public art. They also seem to particularly like fountains that are fairly realistic depictions of animals. Here is Sandy staring at a bronze cat on a pipe which is in turn staring at the water coming out of the pipe, which is certainly something a cat might do.

This one is in a little plaza in back of one of the main university buildings. We discovered it while walking around the university park. Sandy thinks it is functionally a gargoyle, draining water off the roof.

There is a great view out over the park from the other side of this plaza. Århus concentrates its green spaces. Most people live in 4-5 story apartment or condominium blocks, which are nearly all red brick. (Whoever had the red brick concession here did really well.)

But concen- trating the people that way makes room for some very nice parks, which has lured us into doing a great deal more walking that we often do in Texas. (The climate helps, too. It is often too hot in Texas to just go take a walk.)

Concentrating the people also makes bicycles and buses more useful, too. It is nice living in place where more people get around by bicycle and bus than by car. It makes a more livable city scape, and as energy prices continue to climb, which they seem likely to do, and as too many cars continue to add to pollution and global warming, as they seem to do, a patten based on bikes and buses seems much more sustainable. We are going to have to do a lot of re-engineering of American cities one of these days, probably in this direction, as energy prices and pollution take their toll.