BLOG SHOTS #17

GAWE - BLOG  SHOTS

Each month Gardens at Waters East (GAWE) will post a few never before seen photos of “garden life” called - - BLOG SHOTS.  Here are the photos for this posting.

moments in the garden - - enjoy

Lake Express Ferry

passing off the shores of Gardens at Waters East

Garden Pot

Pink Peony

Lily Walk Path

on a foggy morning

Formal Garden Central Planter

Red Peony

Full Moon Rising

seen through the porthole sculpture of the Ferry Makinac 

!   !   !     Lest We Forget     !   !   !

 Ice Buildup on Magnolia Bush

During these warm Summer months;  Gardens at Waters East will include one photo of the recent long and cold Winter in each of its BLOG SHOT postings.  Always  nice to have a comparison to days past.

NOTE:  check out  Photo Essay – Winter 2010 - 11  to see the special series of an extensive collection of photographs taken at Gardens at Waters East this past Winter.  Find them in the archives dated April 4 – 5, 2011.  See the snow, hear the wind, and feel the cold – - - enjoy.

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WANT A "QUICKIE" ? - TODAY

“Quickies”

(All “Quickies” are photos taken and posted the same day)

These three photos were taken on an early morning walk today at the Gardens at Waters East.

Sunday June 26, 2011

Enjoy

 Ismene (Hymenocallis narcissiflora)  Sulphur Queen

Oriental Poppy

 Peony opening buds  &  Dames Rocket (Native Phlox)

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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Orange & Wild - - WOW !

It has been a week of storms and rain at Gardens at Waters East.  With such weather happening day after day this week, thought it about time to post photos of one of the storms earlier this month.  As the storm front passed through the area, it was a fantastic sight!  Even the news stations reported on it as being highly unusual.  As the storm passed, the sky turned a brilliant orange.  Have never seen the sky that orange before.  The news anchors said it was caused by the angle of the sun and the level of the cloud deck.  Just look at these  photos.

A most dramatic evening sunset.

 Storm Front coming in from the West

Colors Changing

Orange & Red

Turbulent Wind in Clouds

Changing to Pink

Front having Passed

One Final Look at the Unusual Sky

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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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. - - - June 18, 2011.   A rain storm is on its way this afternoon so a few photos were taken this morning for today's record.

Enjoy

 Red Peony

Cairns in Asian Garden

White Spiderwort

Siberian Iris

  

Geranium - Splish Splash

Bearded Iris

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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Daffodil Retrospective

Gardens at Waters East has a large number of different daffodils growing within the many garden rooms.  Here are a few of the favorites and varieties seen while walking about earlier this Spring.

The blossoms are now long gone, but when they are blooming they surly are a sign that “new life” is beginning in the garden.

Enjoy and may the photos help you to recall Spring in your own garden.

There are oh so many more, but this is enough for now!

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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BLOG SHOTS #16

GAWE - BLOG  SHOTS

Each month Gardens at Waters East (GAWE) will post two or more never before seen photos of “garden life” called - - BLOG SHOTS.  Here are the photos for today.

moments in the garden - - enjoy

Magnolia and clouds over the lake

 Poppy and Daisy on the Lily Path

Bumble Bee on Centaurea Montana

June 7, 2011

Flock of Lake Gulls passing by

stone steps leading to porthole sculpture

from Ferry - Straits of Mackinac

Forget-me-nots

Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design used here and throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010.

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ART: Impressionism #4

Impressionism: - - Manet, Monet, & Me

An ongoing series of “art” photos:

Gardens at Waters East  calls these pictures -  “Impressionism”.  Here there is a play of color and light.  Here too is expressed inner energy and contemplation.  Photos from the garden can easily be “adjusted” to make very “impressionistic” like paintings.  These can be used in a variety of ways from note cards to letter heads and more.  This is another way of viewing your work and efforts in the garden as “art” and beauty.  Again, these would make interesting note cards.

Enjoy

This is the original photo

phlox, red daylily, and ribbon grass

a first adjustment to original photo

a second adjustment to the original photo

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Created & Found Art- Overview

Created and Found Art

There are many ways to use art in the garden.  Make it a focal point, a hidden to-be-discovered- object of interest, a whimsical piece or “folly”, a meditative construct, on and on.  Gardens at Waters East  (GAWE) contains and showcases many different pieces of enjoyed art.

The art can be a hand crafted piece or a found object enjoyed by the gardener.  Place it where it will receive the “honor” you think it deserves.  Place it where it makes the statement your want visitors to “hear”.

 Japanese Lantern in Asian Garden

Your garden is your gallery.  You are an artist.

Objets d’ Art - -  acquired or self created have a place in that gallery.

In the Gardens at Waters East,  the following are some of the “art” placed in and around the garden.  In this posting only a couple of the objects are being “reposted” since most have already been seen in the past, or will be in upcoming entries.  Check out the archives for this Blog and you will see many of them from the past months.

Torso known as "Blade"

Blue Bottle & Stainless Steel Tree

Created:

Blue Bottle Tree

Cairns

Gazing Balls

Hand crafted steel sculpture – “1000 cranes”

Blade Torso

Triptych Sculpture

Port Hole Glass,  from the “Straits of Mackinac”

Kaleidoscope living planter

Ship Ribs from 1800s

Triptych steel sculpture on Antique Pillar

Port Holes from Ferry -  "Straits of Mackinac"

Found and Acquired:

Two different ship ribs salvaged from mid-nineteenth century schooners.

The chain on the ribs is from a ship once owned by Aristotle Onassis.

Viewing Stone

Driftwood  (some over 12 feet long)  from Lake Michigan

Large “olive” jar & bench

Buddha head

Lanterns with candles

Hand carve granite Japanese lantern

Many large stone  pots

Antique stone pillar from a home in Chicago

Salvaged gravestone – birth 1788 death -1861

Hand carved stone weight for water buffalo form Thailand

Blue Koi,  raku fish sculpture by Tyson Weiss, of Falmouth, Maine

Hand blown Blue Glass Pendant sculptures, from Mundo de Cristal,

Puerto Vallarata, Mexico

A Garden Cairns

The point is:  make your garden you with the things you treasure.

Treat the garden rooms like rooms in your home showcasing your collected art.

Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design used here and throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010.

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