Saturday, July 28, 2012

Want a Quickie? Today


“Quickies”

(All “Quickies” are photos taken and posted the same day)
These photos were taken just today at the Gardens at Waters East. - - July 28, 2012. This short posting will give a break from watching the Olympics so that you do not feel like you spent your whole day inside and in front of the TV!
 NOTE:  All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East.
Enjoy

 Morning Sun
over Lake Michigan

Cosmos

 Rudbeckia

Blue Flax

Daylily Yon Series

Succulent Flowers

Love Over the Fence

Purple Coneflowers & Rudbeckia

Daylily Hybridized at Gardens at Waters East
Series #21

Sunflower Field
250 feet from the edge of Gardens at Waters East

Sunflower Field
Close up

Phlox & Artemisia

False Sunflower

Coneflower & Artemisia

Daylily Hybridized at Gardes at Waters East
Series #8

 Bee
resting in the early morning sun



Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design plus the special “Golden Principle of Design” used throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010 and May 2, 2011.


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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Niagara Escarpment - Watershed #6

Cave Point


This posting will document in photos some of the interesting rock formations located only an hour north up the beach from Gardens at Waters East and these same rocks exist under the very grounds here at the gardens.  As has been mentioned in a past “Watershed” blog posting;  this is the same rock formation (Niagara Escarpment) that runs from Niagara Falls, up over the top of Lake Michigan, then continues south and west out toward the state of Iowa.  More information on this can be found in an earlier posting of July 2, 2011 in the archives titled – Watershed – Facts & Photos.  If you haven’t viewed that, it might be of interest as a foundation for the photos to follow.  There is also interesting information and more details about the escarpment found at the following web site from Wikipedia.


Since it has been a really hot Summer for much of the United States and even here along the shore of Lake Michigan, this posting will try to bring back some Winter relief to all that heat.  The whole area here along Lake Michigan is absolutely gorgeous during the Summer.  These Winter photos are meant to help cool everyone down at this time of year and offer more views of the watershed of Gardens at Waters East.


Do enjoy viewing what is a very common factor of the land formations near and under Gardens at Waters East.  There is a lot of rugged beauty in this place that nurtures this environment along the shore.  So many of the stone on the beach here at StoneWater Beach have been “birthed” from the escarpment shown in today’s pictures.

Hope these photos will help to cool off your Summer heat.
Enjoy











Even a Kayak in mid Winter!



Summer photo, now with gulls on the same rocks as photo above.
Lets not forget it is Summer.
The rest of the photos in this posting will be of the same escarpment
this warmer season.

Summer - Cave Point







People on beach gives perspective of the height of rock walls.




Now - - - if you need some really “cold shots” of Winter to cool down;  go to the archives for April 4-5, 2011.  The nine part series found there will give you more than enough snow photos from the gardens here on the shore of Lake Michigan.





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Monday, July 16, 2012

June - Review 2012


The first “real” summer month has now ended so it is time to look over some of the many views from Gardens at Waters East.  More than 800 photos were taken in the gardens this past June.  It is so very difficult to limit this posting to only twelve of them that reflect the many phases and patterns of plants here on the shores of Lake Michigan.  There are so many more that could be viewed and enjoyed, nevertheless this posting will try to capture the whole range in only a few select photos.  In the days ahead, some others will be posted in the series titled Blog Shots.

None of these photos have been posted until now.
Enjoy your visit.

Blue Flax

Coreopsis - Early Sunrise

Goat's Beard
 on Asian Patio

Diablo Ninebark in bloom

Storm Clouds
over Formal Garden 

Daisy
among the Golden Ninebark

Lysimachia

Geranium - Splish Splash

Peony

Persian Coneflower

Poppy

 Sunset
June 8, 2012



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Monday, July 9, 2012

Diamonds in Your Garden


Isn’t it fascinating how rain adds that certain dimension to garden life.  Obviously it sustains the plants and makes them live, but it also adds dynamics to photos.  In the following pictures you will see that special dimension – diamonds.  The droplets glisten like diamonds on the petals and on the leaves.  Even in the stillness of the photos, there is felt the movement and motion of the rain that was.  -  -  Interesting.  The following are only a dozen of the more than one hundred photos taken after the recent rains.


NOTE: regarding all photos on this blog since the beginning:  This blog is a journal of the actual plants at Gardens at Waters East, no photos are ever "doctored" or "staged".  What you see is what is there so that the contents of this blog records the facts for future reference in this private garden.)

Enjoy a few photos from recent rains

 Soloman Seal

 Ladys Mantle

Peony

Hosta

Daylily

Hinokia Cypress

Snowberry

Spirea

Daylily

Royal Smoke Bush

Currants

Succulents


Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design plus the special “Golden Principle of Design” used throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010 and May 2, 2011.


NOTE:  All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East.

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please do that through this Blog site or with an email to: