Nothing beats a good water tower for advertisement (like this peach). 

In the above photo, you see a water tower with our city’s name featured prominently– in all caps: GREENSBORO. This water tower and the Southern Home Spa Store in front of the tower are found at 105 Edwardia Drive, just as the road snakes around toward Wendover Ave. Like good sleuths, we followed Edwardia only to find the the site of the tower and to happen upon this scene. Never have we seen this building before but, thanks to our commitment to posting a photo a day, we landed here! The spa store has been in business for 28 years, a real accomplishment in this economy. 

To prepare this post, we asked Mr. Search Engine how much water a “typical” tower holds. We learned that towers range from holding 150,000 gallons to 2 million gallons and, as a rule of thumb, the tower should hold as much water as the service area uses in a given day– in case the pump fails. If you want to learn more about water towers, a good starting point is here. 

For today’s memes, no shortage of “S” words….. “S” is for spa & store & southern & sleuth & site & scene & seen & snakes for ABC Wednesday. Also, for Watery Wednesday, plenty of water in this tower, thanks to the recent rainfall. Finally, plenty of fun ways to use WATER in the above spa and garden store.