Want a Quickie? Today 12.29.12

“Quickies”

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

These photos were taken this morning at the Gardens at Waters East. - - 12. 29.12

There was more than six inches of snow during the night and early this morning.  Notice all the wonderful patterns formed by the snow on plants, sculptures, and stone.   - - -   A feast for the eyes in design.

Enjoy

 Fountain Head

 Fence along Lake Trail

 Bog Garden & Lake

 Sun, Clouds, and Lake Michigan

 Asian Patio Garden

 Barberry

 Berry Path Fence

 Middle Arch Logs

 Yew - sun and shadows

 Lily Bloom Sculpture

 Olive Jar and Bench

 Rock Garden

Seed Heads

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

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

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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.

BLOG SHOTS #39

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.

HAPPY  HOLIDAYS       HAPPY  HOLIDAYS       HAPPY  HOLIDAYS

The entrance door decoration is made of driftwood

from StoneWater Beach 

moments in the garden - - enjoy

 White Daisy

with single daisy sun highlight

 Clematis

 Birch Tree

on bluff at Lake Michigan

 Allium - Blue Azure

 Formal Garden

Chives in full bloom

 Iris - Texas

 Oriental Lily

 Peony

 Mallow - Selvestri

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.

 Asian Patio Garden

decorated for the Holiday Days

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

unless otherwise marked.

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

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

www.gardensatwaterseast@Yahoo.com

Ice Age National Scenic Trail - Watershed #8

Ice Age National Scenic Trail

www.iceagetrail.org

Gardens at Waters East sits near a network of outstanding hiking trails.  They are easily accessible and stretch for miles throughout the watershed that feeds the gardens and much of this area of North America.

For some basic fundamental facts and photos about the watershed here, see the archive posting for July 2, 2011 in the archives.  Other past postings in the Watershed Series cover additional examples of this important geographic resource.

Today’s posting will focus on one of the major trails near Gardens at Waters East,  the Ice Age National Scenic Trail which stretches over 1000 miles through the state of Wisconsin.  This whole area was sculpted by the glacial ice sheet of 12,000 years ago.  As it retreated, it left behind a vast variety of unique landscape features.  These ice age remnants are now considered among the world’s finest examples of how continental glaciation sculpts our planet.  Most photos posted here were taken within ten miles of the gardens, two are from the trail about 25 miles away. 

Enjoy your hike along the trail.

Hike near Foot Bridge

 Along the Sturgeon Bay Shipping Canal

 Niagara Escarpment

(more information on this in the archives)

 Fall colors on the trail

 Joe Pye Weed along the trail

 Wild vines on the path

 View of trail in late Fall

 View of the same trail as above in early Winter

 Trail along the Ahnapee River

 Trail along the Kewaunee River

 Coneflowers, Rudbeckia, Liatris etc. at edge of trail

 Fall along the river

 Fellow traveler on the trail

 Field of wild phlox

 Fallen leaves on Karst Limestone

 Butterfly soaking up the sunshine at edge of trail

 Wild Columbine

NOTE:   All photos posted on this Blog are always taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East except for those posted in this series titled Watershed.  This series takes the Blog beyond the immediate gardens to the fuller area that nourished its “neighborhood”.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

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Want a Quickie ? Today 12.12.12

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

These photos were taken this morning at the Gardens at Waters East. - - 12.12.12

Notice all the wonderful patterns formed by the clouds and water.  Each and every morning, rain or shine or snow;  each sunrise is unique and oh so beautiful.

Enjoy

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

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

www.gardensatwaterseast@Yahoo.com

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.

6 PACK - Party on the Beach #1

6 PACK 

A rather large and extensive collection of photos has been taken on StoneWater Beach which is the private beach on Lake Michigan along the shore of this area known as Gardens at Waters East.  Over the last months,  many wonderful scenes of the waters, clouds, sun, plants, and stones have been captured.  In the past when similar photos were posted on the Blog many people commented about the lake and how it adds to the beauty and experience here at the Gardens at Waters East.

Instead of just filing all the unused photos away, this series will post six of them (thus a - - 6 Pack) as a set in an ongoing series.  None of these pictures have ever been posted before today.  Even if you never walk the paths here or wander down to the lake shore,  you are invited to experience and enjoy the beauty of Lake Michigan as do all those who have come here to the gardens for a visit.

In more ways than one, it is - - - “cooler by the lake”.

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

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden

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

www.gardensatwaterseast@Yahoo.com