McNair Jogging Trail at Kinder Lake

Trail on North side of Lake at Discovery Green Park
at Downtown Houston Convention Center

Water lilies on Kinder Lake at Discovery Green Park

Nymphaea odorata American white water lily

McNair Jogging Trail at Kinder Lake with Convention Center 

View from Kinder Lake (Discovery Green Park)

Looking North from Discovery Park: Westin Hotel, Annunciation Church, Minute Maid Park

The psychodelic TV Tree art installation is back at Discovery Green

Video Tree Art Installation (rebuilt in 2012)

The TV Tree Story retold
Remembering Andy Mann, Video Art Pioneer

Discovery Green and neighboring towers at Nite

Kinder Lake with reflection of lights, One Park Place Luxury Residential Tower (center),
Hess Office Tower (right)

Example of 21st century urban greenspace and park design - Discovery Green and Kinder Lake

Kinder Lake at the George R. Brown Convention Center - Discovery Green

TV tree art installation across Kinder Lake

Kinder means 'children' in German; but the lake takes its name from the Kinder family benefactors. Still, it is not a misnomer, even if understood to be a children's pond (Kinderteich) by visitors from Germany. Indeed, the entire Discovery Green park has much to offer to kids, including boating on the lake (and open-air ice-skating in January which the Galleria Mall only offers indoors); surprise water jets in a walk-about fountain feature; a playground area with equipment to climb on; a water curtain on an art installation, and more. Not to mention that the whole family can go see Downtown from a horse-drawn carriage, which can be hired closeby.

Kinder Lake with partial view of convention center from the boardwalk

Artificial lake with ornamental grasses on shoreline.

Kinder Lake with GRB Convention Center in April 2014 (photo added)

Urban landscaping with grasses

Close-up of arching ornamental grasses with Hilton Americas behind

Kinder Lake with partial view of front of GRB Convention Center

Ornamental grasses at the water - Kinder Lake (backlit by the sun)

Landscaping with grasses on North edge of Discovery Green
Inn at the Ballpark and Annunciation Catholic Church in the Distance