I went back to Hajer Garden after an absence of over a year to see how it was looking these days. Actually, if I could climb the wall on our property, I would be in the park itself since we border it, but I never seem to visit it because I can’t scale the wall so have to walk all the way around the block and down a street full of heavy equipment and migrant laborers (who always stop to gawk when any woman passes by, in an abaya or not), not the most pleasant stroll.

Anyway, I finally made the journey on a day off from work, and was amazed to see how many fountains were in the garden, and all of them operating except one very large, contemporary one that is being repaired. I really should go there more often because it’s a lovely, refreshing space.