In Your FACE

Me, me, me.  Look at me.  No, look at me.  Better yet, skip all those and look at me!  Walking through the 
Gardens at Waters East, one almost hears this constant refrain.  Every plant wants attention.  Every bloom is screaming – “I’m so beautiful just look at me!”  In many cases they are right.  Take a look at some of the beauties basking in the sun and calling to be the center of your attention. Checkout the detail of some of the garden residents.

 

All of these “portraits” were take here in the gardens.  Self centered though they may be, the flowers do make you stop and stare.  They seem to be doing “their thing” just for you.  So why not indulge them for a few moments while walking the paths.

 

 

Here then are photos for this posting

pause a moment - - - really slow down and pause a moment

see the detail

even if you only pick one or two of the photos - pause a moment

 

Enjoy

 

 

 

Early morning at

Gardens at Waters East

White and more white - enough

Last week we had a blizzard white white and more white!  Had to drive 248 miles in that.  Not a nice experience. Then today we are having another blizzard.  It is still so early into the winter season but I am tired of WHITE.

 

With that being my dominating thought for the day, I thought it best to add a little color in this posting. 

 

These are some of the many colors that were here in the Gardens at Waters East not so many weeks ago.  I don’t know about you but I really needed a boost to my brain so here are a few of the colors that make the gardens look so good during the summer and fall months.

 

 

  

The Lost Dauphin

Lost Dauphin

 

Late during this past Autumn, took a hike in the Lost Dauphin State Park.  It is only 30 miles from the Gardens at Waters East.  I had never been there.  It is named for the son of Louis the 16^th of France who along with his wife Marie Antoinette were guillotined in the French Revolution.  

Stories have lived on that this son escaped from France and came to the United States. If you do research you will discover that there are more than 600 people who have claimed to be the long Lost Dauphin. You pick what you want to believe!

 

 

 

Back to the park.  Beautiful Day, lots of colors and great trails with ravines etc. Nice get-a-way for the afternoon.

 

It is the smallest State Park in Wisconsin - - only 18 acres.

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST. SNOW

FINALLY !!!   It has been an unusually mild, even warm Autumn.  Was able to do lots of garden work because of that, but we all knew it couldn’t last – and it didn’t. This morning we had our first snowfall of the season.

 

Looks nice.

I can take a few days of this but I am sure in a week or two I will want it gone!