December 1, 2019 | Happy Holidays at the Fountain at The Circle!
8 Comments | Categorised in: UncategorizedFriends and neighbors:
The annual decorations adorning the Fountain at The Circle are up and will be lighted nightly through early January.
Thanks to all our hardy volunteers who braved the bracing weather on Saturday morning, Nov. 30, to attach the lighted evergreen swags to the perimeter of the fountain island, just beating the rain. They also did a thorough raking and sweeping of The Circle, sprucing it up too.
The grizzly bear cubs are also in their seasonal finery, evergreen wreaths with bows fashioned by crafty volunteers around their necks and colorful kippots atop their heads. (A thank-you to Flowerland Nursery and neighbor Carla Silvey for providing the evergreen and holly branches for the cubs’ wreaths.) The fountain maintenance crew got an assist from a pair of young neighbors in dressing up the cubs.
For the first time this year, at sunset on Sunday, Dec. 1, a small group of Circle neighbors, including volunteers and donors, held a ceremonial “first lighting” of the decorations, an event that was hindered but not undone by the uncertain weather.
Friends of the Fountain and Walk is delighted to bring this holiday tradition to the Berkeley community each year. We hope you enjoy it each time you pass — safely and carefully — through The Circle these next few weeks.
And as you consider your year-end nonprofit donations, please keep FOFW in mind. Your support helps keep the fountain flowing and Fountain Walk in bloom. You can donate securely on our website here.
Happy holidays from all of us at FOFW!
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8 Comments
It was a thrill this afternoon to enter the circle and see, once more, the bears and their surroundings lit up and decorated … it reaffirms the circle of our friendship and pride in their continuing presence.
Thanks, Tam and Larry. We are pleased that this annual effort brings so many people warm feelings. Thanks for writing and for your support.
As to mastering the art of the traffic circle, nothing could top this essay on Survival Driving in Italy … I lived in Germany for a couple of years, cutting my teeth on their traffic circles as during periodic trips to to England: http://code7700.com/1994_survival_driving_in_italy.htm
It’s lovely indeed, especially in this weather, but I’m still avoiding the Circle as a driver ..
Hello, Phil. That is the yin and yang of The Circle. A beautiful site. Sometimes a traffic terror. We all just need to slow down and take it easy going through.
Thank you thank you for all you do to THRILL us at holiday time! The bears always look so festive and beautiful!!
Thank you for the kind words. It is a pleasure to do and to see the pleasure it brings the community.
A delightful new book that I recently acquired as a gift and subsequently purchased two more of is “The Chanukah Bears of Marin Circle”. If you haven’t read it yet it is available at Pegasus on Solano Ave.