BLOG SHOTS #63

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

 Waters East

Lake Michigan in the background

 Crocus in Spring

 Mallard Duck - male

in the Formal Garden

 Native Sunflower - Maximillian

 Canada Geese - in flight

from the shore at Gardens at Waters East

 Lichen on stones

 Star Magnolia

 Sunset in June

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:

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Fossils - StoneWater Beach

During the recent summer while hiking along StoneWater Beach, the shore along the Gardens at Waters East,  a number of interesting fossils were found.  For millions of years before the last ice age, this area was part of a great sea.  There are many fossils of ancient sea life that can be found as one walks along kicking up the stones.

October Sunrise at Gardens at Waters East

Many of the fossils found here are more than four-hundred million years old.  These stones, these fossils, trigger reflection and meditation and thoughts of what lived here so long ago; and the spirits of all that life frozen here in time.

Here one can uncover and discover all kinds of life that at one time called this place home.  Journey with me as together we will find “treasures” of ancient life.  Here are twelve of the many!  Any ideas of what is what???

 One final look at StoneWater Beach

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

THE TREE #9

This is the ninth posting in the series “THE TREE” which follows the life of a special Honey Locust tree in the Gardens at Waters East.  If you have not read the first posting, it might be most helpful for you to do that.  Go to the archives in this Blog and check out the posting – Beginnings - found on March 7, 2014.  Reading this short introduction will put this tree, this posting, and future postings in proper perspective.  It will be helpful.

This posting looks at THE TREE with a focus on the seed pods as the season now comes to a close.  Notice how they have changed these weeks since the last posting.  The gardens are now approaching their final moments of the season so do enjoy the photos as time moves us into the final months of the year.      These pictures were all taken since the last posting about THE TREE.

Enjoy your visit to - THE TREE

 THE TREE - early Autumn

October 17, 2014

 Seed Pods - showing colors

October 18, 2014

 Autumn cutting & cleanup

around THE TREE

October 18, 2014

 Seed Pods

October 26, 2014

 Seed Pods

October 28, 2014

 Seed Pod

November 4, 2014

 Seed Pod - fallen to the ground

November 7, 2014

 View of THE TREE

through the Asian Patio Arch

Sunrise November 7, 2014

over Lake Michigan at the Gardens at Waters East

The day the seed pod fell to the ground.

If you wish to look at other blogs from around the world which are doing similar monthly tree postings.  click on:   http://looseandleafy.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-is-tree-following-and-list-of-tree.html

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.

gardensatwaterseast.blogspot.com

BLOG SHOTS #62

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

 Poppy

 view from Berry Path

toward Lake Michigan

 Red-winged Blackbird nest

 view through Port Hole sculpture

toward Formal Garden

 Bobolink gathering

traveling all the way from Argentina

 Red Yarrow & Artemisia

 Clouds over Lake Michigan - Waters East

 Creeping 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.

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

Watershed #22 - Peninsula Park - Autumn Hike

This, the last week of October, was a good time to get out to see the remaining colors on parts of the Niagara Escarpment that stretches across Peninsula Park in Door County.  The rock formation is interesting itself, (if you want to know more about it click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/niagara_escarpment)  however the hike this week was to check out the remaining colors in the most popular camping park in Wisconsin.  The trail that was hiked is called Eagle Trail and runs along the base of the sheer cliffs at the edge of the bay of Green Bay - - massive and irregular rugged rock formations rising 240 feet that make for beautiful scenery. 

Many of the leaves have fallen, but lots still remained.  Plus, here and there, it was easy to find flowers still in bloom.  Once again way too many photos taken.  Here then are only a few of them so that you get the “feel” of the season in a place so near and so special.

Enjoy you hike today – the colors & the rock formations.

 rock cliffs rising up to 240 feet

above the waters of Green Bay

 flowers here and there still in bloom

 notice the people along the trail

 beautiful sky this day

a great accent to the leaves

 springs flowing out of the cliffs

many caves along the trail

 so quiet - so peaceful

 interesting color on this tree trunk

 colors on an island in the bay off of the park

 the village of Ephraim

as seen from the park

one last view

looking out over the bay of Green Bay

All photos posted on this Blog are taken on the property of Garden at Waters East, except for those posted in this series titled – Watershed.  You can find many postings under this title in the archives.  The watershed for the gardens is a vast territory that nourishes the land and the people for hundreds of miles around the gardens.  The overview below shows the extent of the watershed for 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:

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