Everyone wanted to see this one, and it was very crowded… we had to actually queue up to walk through it. The garden was packed with a little Zen garden with ripples carved in sand, pines, Japanese maples,a water feature and koi fish. Moon gates are very pleasing to the eye, and this one was […]
Garden and Plant Photos
Snow plus camera= pictures
If you want to know what Arborvitae bushes grow up to be: trees! As snow flurries swirled I snapped a closeup picture of my tree. In my old[er] age I like to stay inside and look through the window. This is a scene I took while inside while snow blew briskly outside. That is why […]
A Fine Gift For Someone Special
Maybe even yourself!I know this is a year of frugality and we are all making efforts to stem crass commercialism, but there always ought to be time to appreciate art and to support talent. I randomly chose one I like to illustrate this post. I try to not make a secret of the high regard […]
A Common Point of View
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the […]
Fall Colors Fading
It just hasn’t been a very good year for autumn leaf color here. Too dry at the end of the growing season, I think. So in response to the Garden Blogger Fall Color Project from Dave’s Garden, I have a few photos that I took early on, when the leaves were first starting to turn. […]
Ike’s Aftermath in Ohio
I thought you might be interested in seeing the trees that blew down a few properties away from me. These were giant burr oaks felled by the mighty winds of Ike.
