When I decided to put in a backyard water feature, my wife thought I was crazy. She had seen many backyard fountain displays, and most of them looked very tacky to her. They usually have something like a little crazy cherubic angels dumping water bucket  continuously or a crocodile spitting up. She could not understand why I want this kind of backyard fountain. When I told her what I had in mind, however, she changed her mind.

I almost decided to build an indoor water fountain. You see it is very small and very subtle. The backyard fountain will not be one of those great things. It only use a gallon per day, and it could be run from a single solar panel. Basically, the rear spring is a little more than a small swimming pool with waterfall of runoff at the top. It was made of blue tiles, to make quieter trickling sounds.

The backyard fountain has not worked in many neighborheeods – there was too much background noise in order to take full advantage of its very strong. However, on where we lived, it was absolutely perfect. It is a bit rural and underdeveloped area, so there was almost no sound to disturb the backyard fountain, except for the chirping of crickets.

Although solar powered fountain has little effect on the site as a whole, when you sit next to it, it calms you down. I prefer to go through the backyard fountain and use it as an aid to meditation. The quiet trickling sounds , and the appearance of flowing water always calm me. It cost me very little to the design and construction for the backyard water fountain, and I had much joy for it.