It be a huge big park...bigger than Central Park in NY where i never been. Think African game park! yeah... that be it! Not like i been there either, but you know what i mean...
And right in the middle of it be The Fountain...
Someone thought a bit of 'architecture' in the wilds be good for the soul... dunno wot they be thinkin... anyway...
This Fountain in its heyday, had an informal garden of sorts around it, with loads of African flora and fauna, rough hew pathways, all structured, wildly, to merge with the African surroundings.
Over decades, the Fountain dried, the gardens grew wilder than planned. The nearby plantation owner, out riding one day, realized that water supply had been diverted, inadvertently, leading to the demise of the Fountain and the gardens. So, he ensured that some underling engineered the waterworks back to life!
The Fountain was a structure that could be seen from a distance, the best vantage point being a hill about half a mile away. African wilderness be huge... and it was a while before the plantation owner went riding there... It was approaching dusk the next time he rode by the Fountain, where an elephant and her calf, a fawn and three zebra quenched themselves! Copious amounts of the old garden's flowers, now wild as the wilderness, were in riotous bloom.
Unknown to him, and his conscientious underling, the waterway of the fountain was also connected to an experimental drip irrigation system that spanned the entire garden.
The Fountain structure was huge... as if trying to compete with the surrounding African landscape...which allowed for the relatively peaceful watering of a variety of animals that had graduated toward it, when the scent carried on the wind.
The unexpected sight of animals at the Fountain delighted the plantation owner, who with a smirk thought - "And all is good".
We have travelled a long way in 2 decades. And we've reached the Fountain, again. Over the years, we walked some of those garden paths together, sometimes, we reached there, on our own, through different avenues. Almost always, enjoying whatever the garden had to offer along the way.
Today, we meet there again... two creatures with antipodal personalities and paths, on either side of the Fountain.
It once only had water, time and space have brought in algae and frogs and lil green snakes and all manner of wee water creatures, you'd probably go 'eeeekkks' over. (Hehehehe i can see you reacting to a chameleon now lol). On the surface of the water, no man walked, but lilies and lotus add to gorgeous nature's quietude.
We've often sat on the edge of the Fountain and dangled our feet in its cool waters, walking around there and generally lounging, reading or scrabbling in the shade of the oak, gulmohor and banyan trees. Sometimes i'd nap and you'd pray a decade or two.
Today, when we meet... we both walk, to the right, simultaneously, not toward each other, not away, just around the Fountain... conversing across its breadth, blessed by a light spray, before the animals come by at dusk...
Maybe, one day, we'll walk around the Fountain, toward each other. Till then, its lovely talkin to you 
Photograph: Juhanson Wikipedia
