With students returning to school, the Thanksgiving Holiday is officially over.
Above, you see two pumpkins that have been tossed in a retention pond in a suburban neighborhood. Say goodbye to pumpkins and hello to the sights of Christmas: inflatable Santas, living nativities, Christmas tree lots, and the ocean of red and green chicken-wire-light-balls, tossed-high-into-trees in Sunset Hills. On Thursday, when December arrives, our memory of the ubiquitous fall pumpkins will be long gone. Likely, by then, a diligent neighbor will have transferred the above pumpkins from the retention pond to a compost pile.
Retention ponds are human-made basins for managing water run off. They are extremely popular in Greensboro, particularly in neighborhoods that were constructed during the housing boom of the 1990's. Some communities, Lake Jeanette, for example, made a real effort for these water features to be well-landscaped to enhance the neighborhood. Other places, the Wal-Mart on North Battleground, for example, these ponds are less elegant as they tend to collect litter.
And yes, as seen above, pumpkins float. Jack-o-lanterns, however, do not........
That's a really different photo! Smashing!
Posted by: Dina | Monday, November 28, 2011 at 07:16 AM
From your text:
" Some communities, Lake Jeanette, for example, made a real effort for these water features to be well-landscaped to enhance the neighborhood. Other places, the Wal-Mart on North Battleground, for example, these ponds are less elegant as they tend to collect litter. "
Well, yes, Walmarts tend to collect litter. Most often of the two-legged variety:
http://peopleofwalmart.com
Posted by: Louis la Vache | Monday, November 28, 2011 at 02:07 PM
How very interesting to read and of course to look at !
Christmas in advance in full celebration over here as well. At least, for those willing/able to.
Please have a good Tuesday.
Posted by: robert | Monday, November 28, 2011 at 05:59 PM
A funny photo with great reflections. We have retention ponds here also which do a necessary job of holding excess water...under our soil is a plethora of limestone which leads to sinkholes which are no fun at all.
We're fine. Just took a break over the holidays. Still on break, but I'll be posting once in awhile. Thanks for asking. Hope you had a wonderful holiday!
Posted by: Lowell | Monday, November 28, 2011 at 07:02 PM
When I looked at this yesterday I saw the pumpkins of course, but not the Koi. Thanks for your visit and your comment.
Posted by: GW Bill Miller | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Learned all kinds of things from this post. Never heard of retention ponds before. They sound like an excellent idea. And I would not have guessed that pumpkins float.
Posted by: Oakland Daily Photo | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 04:50 PM
What a poetic photo here!
Posted by: Irina | Saturday, December 03, 2011 at 02:36 PM