In Your Face #3

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.

In this posting of In Your Face;  a “regular” photo of the flower will be displayed followed by a “close-up” to show some of the detail that is such an interesting part of the  plant.

Here then are photos for this posting

 Purple Coneflower & Globe Thistle

 Purple Coneflower

 Globe Thistle

 Marguerite Daisy - group

 Marguerite Daisy

 Rose

 Rose

 Oriental Lily - group

 Oriental Lily

 Pasque Flower - group

 Pasque Flower

Poppy

Poppy 

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.

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Quote 4U - The Gardener #2 CAMUS

Thoughts to celebrate the deeply rooted appreciation, love, and joy you find in gardening and the nature that cradles all of us.

“Autumn is a second Spring

where every leaf is a flower.”

Albert Camus

Every now and then, this Blog posts a quote that speaks to all of us who share a deep respect and love of nature and gardening.  Along with the meditative quote, Gardens at Waters East will share a few never before seen pictures.  Here then is today’s posting to feed your mind, spirit, and delight your eyes. These are the colors of the gardens this Autumn.  Notice the colors, the variations, the details. The quote from Camus is very fitting indeed.

 Garden Leaves

Lake Michigan in the background

 Blueberry

 Autumn Jazz Ninebark

 Solomon Seal

 Dwarf Goat's Beard

 Engleman Ivy

 Hosta

 Overview - leaves

 Hops - Humulus Lupulus "Aureus"

 Native Primerose

 Ivy in Blue Spruce

 Golden Nugget Ninebark

 Locus - seed pods

Creeping Jenny

 Sedum

 Spirea Fritsch - bush

 Spirea Fritsch - close up of a leaf

 Sumac

Daylily

Pampas Grass

Lake Michigan in background

All photos were taken in the Gardens at Waters East

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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6 PACK - Party on the Beach #4

6 PACK – Beach Party Time

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”.

 StoneWater Beach

looking North

 Rocks & Clear Water

Shadows

 Close-up

so many stones of so many colors

 Fall

colors beginning

 Gaillardia

on the beach

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

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BLOG SHOTS #49

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

 Sunrise - October 1st.

 Raindrops on Hosta

 Mallow Selvestri

 Path to Formal Garden

 Pink Mallow

 Peacock Orchid

after the rain

 Lake Trail

 Rudbeckia

 Potentilla

with dew

 StoneWater Beach

private beach of Gardens at Waters East

Love Over the Fence

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

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