The fountain head

Here's some trivia for your next dinner party: There are 35 kinds of trees at Stanford Shopping Center. These are the things you find when you go wandering around the Internet with your eyes half-closed. But the better tidbit on the center's website is that Stanford's planters of flowers are "located in four microclimates." I was not aware that malls had microclimates.

The flora are indeed gorgeous at Stanford. I think some of the fountains could be modernized, though. Let's call in some artists and let them have a field day. Or, we could just replicate this fabulous Austrian fountain I also found online:

This is in Wattens, Austria, at the Swarovski Crystal headquarters. Big green thanks to Michael Slonecker and Wikipedia for the pic.