Bluebonnet Hydrant - Ardmore, OK - Painted Hydrants on Waymarking.com

Not long ago, this was a silver hydrant with an orange cap, and it had probably been this way since the 1990s. In 2019, Create Ardmore and the Ardmore Fire Department worked together on a beautification effort in which fire hydrants in the downtown Cultural Arts District -- a comparatively small number compared to the over 1600 hydrants that the Ardmore FD has to maintain throughout the area! -- would be given the glamour treatment. As the Ardmore FD requires that the hydrants have a specific color cap -- red, orange, green or blue -- to indicate how much water pressure each tank has behind it, they did the priming work, leaving local volunteers to use their imaginations and minimal guidelines in the effort.

The orange cap has been repainted, with some yellow streaks to suggest that it is acting as the sun above a mostly blue standpipe. The bluebonnets are a darker blue, all around the hydrant, with a bit of yellow and white below the cap to provide sun and light clouds.

Time will tell if a University of Oklahoma-themed hydrant appears nearby, given that the bluebonnet is the official flower of the State of Texas.

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